The Boston Red Sox made history Tuesday night when its first all-women broadcast team announced the game at Fenway Park as part of the team’s Women’s Celebration Night.
Emma Tiedemann did play-by-play while Alanna Rizzo was the color analyst. Kasey Hudson was the sideline reporter, while Natalie Noury anchored the studio show with analyst Jen McCaffrey.
Tiedemann, who usually works as the play-by-play announcer for the Red Sox’s Double-A team in Portland, told HuffPost that she’s used to conversations about her gender.
“I’m hoping that in the very near future, we don’t have to talk about it like this anymore,” she said. “We don’t have to make this one-season celebration game, because hopefully there will be more and more women taking full-time roles in the future. And this won’t be the story of a game on a Tuesday night. It’ll just be baseball eventually.”
While this is the Red Sox’s first all-women broadcast crew, MLB made history for the same thing in 2021 when an all-women broadcast team announced a game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Baltimore Orioles. Rizzo, who did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment, was part of that 2021 crew, and she told MLB.com that she has her own style of being a color analyst.
