José Mota
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- For the Brazilian football (soccer) player, see José Roberto Rodrigues Mota.
José Manuel Mota Matos (born March 16, 1965 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is an English TV play-by-play announcer and Spanish radio color commentator for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He works alongside Amaury Pi-Gonzalez in the broadcast booth in Spanish and alongside Mark Gubicza in English. Fully bilingual, he conducts interviews with baseball players speaking either language.
Mota attended Cal State Fullerton in Orange County on a baseball scholarship. He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 2nd round of the 1985 amateur draft and made his Major League debut for the San Diego Padres as a second baseman on May 25, 1991. His only other season of Major League experience was in 1995 for the Kansas City Royals.
He made one film appearance, in the 1999 Kevin Costner film For Love of the Game as a Dominican shortstop.
Mota has worked on the Angels Spanish language radio broadcasts since 2002. With the team adding fifty games to their English language television package in 2007, Mota will add those games to his workload.
Mota has previous television experience as a sideline reporter, and also filled in for Rex Hudler during the latter's suspension in 2003. He also was a third announcer in the team's over-the-air television booth in 2004 and 2005.
Mota worked for FOX on their coverage of the 2006 Major League Baseball postseason after Steve Lyons was removed from the broadcast for racially insensitive remarks.
Mota, who has also handled several Spanish language assignments in both baseball and football for Fox Sports, is the son of former Dodger great Manny Mota.
