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On my local radio station baseball games translations take the most of the
broadcast slots. Commentators speak very fast and the only thing I can
differentiate is なりました. なりました is repeated literally every two seconds. What
could possibly "become" or "change state" so often? What is possibly said in
front of なりました?
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pragmatics semantics interpretation
How to interpret なりました at a baseball game radio broadcast?
> ...に、なりました。 ...に、なりました。 ...に、なりました。 ...に、なりました。

This is a fresh discovery that I have not ever thought it to be questionable
as a Japanese at all.

You could not hear the same phrase on TV broadcast, right?

「になりました」 is used to convey every happening event to the listeners who are not
watching it.

The reporter could say "ただいま午後｛ごご｝３時｛じ｝２４分｛ぷん｝１０秒｛びょう｝ **になりました** 。１１秒｛びょう｝
**になりました** 。１２秒｛びょう｝ **になりました** 。...." on every second for ever.
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