“It totally is different,” said Hardy, who threw out a ceremonial first pitch to former teammate Chris Davis and will be with the Orioles the rest of the week. She's also spent time in Double-A … I was really fortunate to have clubs that have backed me up and made me feel the same. Until then, she said, she was “the ostrich in the sand” as to the representation of women in baseball’s broadcast booths. Her addition to the Orioles’ broadcasting group comes at a time when women are still scarce inside the broadcast booth, even if they’re part of radio and television as sideline reporters. “It still doesn’t feel real just yet,” said Newman, one of several additions to the Orioles’ 19-person broadcasting crew this year. BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Orioles broadcaster Melanie Newman made history Tuesday night as the first female broadcaster in franchise history to call play-by-play for a regular-season game. Newman also became just the fourth active female game broadcaster in Major League Baseball, joining Suzyn Waldman, of the New York Yankees, Jessica Mendoza, of ESPN, and Jenny Cavnar, of the Colorado Rockies. “I was just doing what I knew I was good at, what I was put on the earth to do, and I enjoyed it. And that means a lot to me.”, RELATED: PLAYING MARLINS AFTER POSITIVES IS UNUSUAL. He’ll pitch in a simulated game setting again Friday before pitching in a game again, Hyde said. Left-hander Wade LeBlanc is scheduled to start Wednesday at the Miami Marlins. The Sun has you covered. This is the first time I’m around, but the atmosphere — baseball, the guys, just the whole camaraderie in the clubhouse, all that stuff is the same.”. That, Hardy said, is what he misses the most. She was part of the first all-female minor league broadcast team with Salem in 2019, and said she only found out then she was one of six women calling games in the minors with Colorado’s Jenny Cavnar and New York Yankees broadcaster Suzyn Waldman the only ones carrying that flag in the majors. I’m actually able to walk and not be hurting, or I go on a hike and I’m walking down the mountain and it’s like, ‘Crap, my knees won’t hurt.’ I feel like I got 18 years younger when I retired.”. Her experience is a wide array of reporting, announcing and reporting across baseball and football. She's also spent time in Double-A serving in various roles for multiple teams. Newman, 29, became the first-ever female broadcaster to call an Orioles contest when the team hosted the Miami Marlins. Police Release Information After Arrest Of A Black Man In Anne Arundel County Goes Viral, Baltimore City Police Officer Donald Hildebrant Arrested, Charged With Sexually Assaulting Minor, Man Killed In Shooting In Broad Daylight, Baltimore Police Say, Former Baltimore County Correctional Officer Sentenced To Over 33 Years In Federal Prison For Production Of Child Pornography, Gov. BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Orioles broadcaster Melanie Newman made history Tuesday night as the first female broadcaster in franchise history to call play-by-play for a regular-season game. PLAYING MARLINS AFTER POSITIVES IS UNUSUAL. New Orioles broadcaster Melanie Newman speaks with the media before Monday's spring training game against the Tampa Bay Rays. Newman previously held various roles with the Frisco RoughRiders, the Texas Rangers Double-A affiliate, and the Mobile BayBears, the Double-A affiliate for the Arizona Diamondbacks, including play-by-play announcer, reporter and host. For someone whose career in baseball brought her to Ed Smith Stadium inputting information for MLB Advanced Media in spring training in the past, the setting is familiar. “I never even thought that this would be in the realm of possibility for me,” Newman told MLB.com. I want that awareness to be brought, that our gender, our race, really anything else shouldn’t have an effect on the job we’re supposed to do as long as we’re good at that job.”. Want to be an Orioles Insider?
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