‘Speak to us’: ESPN’s Jessica Mendoza wants to hear more female voices on MLB broadcasts

Being the lone woman in a baseball broadcast booth bears a lot of responsibility. “No one told me, ‘Hey, by the way, screw up and no other woman could do this,’ ” said Jessica Mendoza, the first woman on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” team. “But in my mind, I’m like, ‘I want to get past the fact that I’m a woman.’ ”