"When I did my first game in 1994 for the Baseball Network, I was pretty good, but the backlash was horrible. Waldman tore down walls as one of the first women to land a full-time job as a baseball color commentator and one of the first to do play-by-play on TV for a big league team - and wound up making headlines when she debuted as a radio analyst in the 2009 World Series. The Yankees because of Suzyn Waldman's role and the Astros because Houston TV reporter Anita Martini was the first woman granted access to a Major League clubhouse. It is poetic that Mendoza's first postseason assignment happened in an Astros-Yankees postseason game.
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Mendoza is also the first woman to make her postseason debut for a win-or-go-home game in any major North American pro sport, following in the footsteps of ESPN's Doris Burke, who has served in a variety roles at NBA playoff games, including as courtside analyst. While Mendoza was keen to downplay the societal significance, it's undeniable she walks in a proud path of pioneers.
I'm like, 'Why? I'm just excited to be calling baseball in October.'" It's funny when people are asking how I'm feeling. "But I'm so in that mode of just being excited for this game because of these two teams, not because of anything I'm doing. "I've had a lot of people reaching out to me to congratulate me, and I'm thankful for that," Mendoza said when reached by phone Monday night. Video: AL WC: Springer hits a line-drive double to center And once again, she was focused more on the work at hand than the ground she broke.Ĭalling the Houston Astros' 3-0 victory over the New York Yankees in the American League Wild Card Game presented by Budweiser, along with John Kruk and Dan Shulman, Mendoza became the first female analyst for a nationally televised MLB postseason game. Jessica Mendoza made baseball and broadcasting history Tuesday night.
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