public address system

Just as we returned to the press box, the next hitter was announced over the public-address system: “Shohei Ohtani!”

After completing his warmup pitches with Rage Against the Machine’s “Bulls on Parade” blaring on the Dodger Stadium public-address system, Buehler went into his windup with the signature high leg-kick and fired his first pitch, a 96-mph fastball, by Miami leadoff hitter Jazz Chisholm Jr. for strike one.

But then a disembodied voice wafted soothingly over the public-address system.

Pop music blared from the public-address system through the entire game, even when pitches were about to be thrown.

These needed to be kept at a distance from exploding pyrotechnics and angled away from the blare of the stadium’s public-address system.