Jessica Mendoza to call AL wild-card game for ESPN
ESPN sideline reporter Jessica Mendoza looks on during Game 3 of the College World Series Championship on June 25, 2014 in Omaha, Neb. Credit: ESPN Images / Phil Ellsworth
ESPN announced its current "Sunday Night Baseball" team of Dan Shulman, John Kruk and Jessica Mendoza will call the American League wild-card game Tuesday, making Mendoza the first female analyst to a work a Major League Baseball playoff game on national TV.
The Yankees likely will host the game against the Astros or Angels.
Mendoza joined the Sunday night booth in late August in place of Curt Schilling, who was removed from the telecast after a tweet in which he compared Muslims to Nazis.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
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