Her Story: 1st Time All-Female Broadcast Crew Calls MLB Game

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — There was past — and her story, excessively — successful the broadcast booth astatine Tropicana Field connected Tuesday night.

For the archetypal clip successful Major League Baseball history, an all-female announcing unit called a crippled arsenic the Tampa Bay Rays played the Baltimore Orioles.

READ MORE: COVID In Maryland: Cases Increase By More Than 200 In A Day

The YouTube broadcast featured Melanie Newman connected play-by-play with Sarah Langs arsenic the analyst. Alanna Rizzo was the on-field reporter, and Heidi Watney and Lauren Gardner hosted the pregame and postgame coverage.

“This was truthful overmuch FUN!” Langs tweeted aft the Rays’ 9-3 win.

“Honored to beryllium portion of a historical moment, but much than anything, conscionable truthful overjoyed to get to enactment alongside” her colleagues, she said, praising them arsenic “Strong, astute & inspiring WOMEN and PEOPLE!”

READ MORE: Baltimore Board Of Estimates Approves $525K Gun Trace Task Force Settlement

Newman is the Orioles’ play-by-play vigor announcer, Langs writes for MLB.com and Rizzo, Watney and Gardner are connected aerial for MLB Network.

“It’s not a novelty, it’s astir normalcy,” MLB Network tweeted.

“Trailblazers” posted the authoritative MLB Twitter account.

MORE NEWS: Mass Vaccination Site At Timonium Fairgrounds Is Open For Its Last Day Wednesday

Tennis champion and societal justness advocator Billie Jean King celebrated the broadcast by posting connected Twitter: “It’s a history-making nighttime for #MLB.”