Jenny Cavnar and Julia Morales made Major League Baseball history on Monday night.
Cavnar and Morales called Monday’s Oakland A’s–Houston Astros matchup for their respective clubs. The tandem became the first female play-by-play announcers on the home and road broadcasts to call a regular-season game.
The A’s NBC Sports account brought everyone up to speed on the history being made at the Juice Box.
https://twitter.com/NBCSAthletics/status/1790196066782150851
Morales‘ first big call came on a home run call in the fourth inning. She exuberantly reacted to Alex Bregman’s towering blast to left field to extend the Astros’ lead.
https://twitter.com/astros/status/1790187840275681722
Cavnar, as she’s done multiple times this season, called the action for NBC Sports California.
https://twitter.com/NBCSAthletics/status/1790192063340052637
MLB.com’s detailed story on the historic evening says the Astros’ television crew devised the plan to center Morales in the booth.
“The idea was concocted by the Astros’ TV broadcast crew, a tight-knit group that wanted to do something fun and unique,” the story said.
.@jennycavnar and @JuliaMorales brought their daughters into the broadcast booth to take part in a historic night pic.twitter.com/amwQQxwfuw
— A's on NBCS (@NBCSAthletics) May 14, 2024
Women continue to break ground in the world of sports and that’s not just exclusive to athletes these days. It only feels more inevitable that more women will soon be calling MLB games as these sorts of things are normalized.
[Houston Astros; NBCS Athletics; MLB.com]
