Don Orsillo joined NESN in April 2001 as the network's voice of Boston Red Sox baseball. Honored with two New England Emmy Awards, Orsillo was also named the 2005 Massachusetts Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
An experienced play-by-play announcer, Orsillo also calls NESN’s Boston College basketball coverage and Providence College basketball games for ESPN Plus. In 2007, Orsillo served as a play-by-play announcer for TBS during the network’s MLB playoff coverage. He also appeared in the feature film, "Fever Pitch" with Tim McCarver and Harold Reynolds following the 2004 season.
Orsillo came to NESN from the Pawtucket Red Sox, Boston's Triple-A affiliate, where he served as the radio play-by-play announcer for over 140 games each season since 1996. In addition to his duties in the broadcast booth, Orsillo also served as the team's director of community relations.
Orsillo got his start as a baseball play-by-play announcer for the Pittsfield Mets of the New York-Penn League during the 1991 and 1992 seasons. In 1993, Orsillo moved to Binghamton, N.Y., to do play-by-play radio and television for the Binghamton Mets of the Double-A Eastern League. While with Binghamton, he had the opportunity to serve as a commentator for the nationally syndicated 1994 Double-A All-Star Game.
During the 1991-1996 hockey seasons, Orsillo was the play-by-play radio and television voice for the Springfield Indians/Falcons. He hosted "Inside the Indians," a weekly live television talk show and was the analyst for the 1994 AHL All-Star Game.
Orsillo grew up in Madison, N.H., and is a 1991 graduate of Northeastern University in Boston with a B.S. in communications.
