My recurring memory along those lines is of the long silence, followed by Joe softly saying "The pitch..." Followed by the batter's outcome, ranging from the laconic "check swing, ball two" to the amped up "swung on, fly ball to DEEP right center field!"
It occurs to me that Joe was not nearly so concerned about telling us what the pitch did as Brantley is. An interesting contrast between the two former pitchers-turned-announcers.