But the good thing about it is we’re not the last.” “I feel like that’s been most of my career has been first female this, first female that. “It’s crazy that we’re still doing all these firsts,” she continued. “We’re not alone in saying that it’s surprising that it has taken this long for it to open up a little bit more in terms of diversity,” Newman told NPR. Baseball remains largely a boy’s club - one where women just trying to do their jobs are routinely harassed or even raped - and the fact that it’s taken this long for it to happen is, frankly, shameful. Of course, five women working an MLB game at the same time shouldn’t be a big deal in the year 2021, but it is. Alanna Rizzo will be the game’s on-field reporter, and the pre- and post-game hosts will be Heidi Watney and Lauren Gardner.
Melanie Newman, broadcaster for the Baltimore Orioles, will handle the play-by-play duties, while Sarah Langs will provide color commentary for MLB’s Game of the Week Live on YouTube beginning at 7 p.m. Tonight, when the Baltimore Orioles take on the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field, the broadcast team working the game will make history as the first all-female team providing coverage of an MLB game.
