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Softbal player Jessica Mendoza attends the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 35th Annual Salute to Women In Sports awards, a celebration and a fundraiser to ensure more girls and women have access to sports, at Cipriani Wall Street on October 15, 2014 in New York City.Michael Loccisano—Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Oct 6, 2015 10:11 PM UTC Former softball slugger Jessica Mendoza will become the first woman in history to broadcast a national televised postseason MLB game on Tuesday when the New York Yankees take on the Houston Astros on ESPN. Mendoza, a two-time Olympic medalist, retired from softball last year. She joined Dan Shulman and John Kirk as a regular analyst on ESPN’s _Sunday Night Baseball_ in September. She also replaced Curt Schilling, who led the show, after he appeared to [compare Muslims to Nazis on Twitter.](http://time.com/4010430/espn-curt-schilling-nazi-meme/) Mendoza, who was a four-time first-team All-American softball player at Stanford from 1999 to 2002, has made history before. In August, she became the first women in the booth for an ESPN MLB broadcast during a game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the St. Louis Cardinals. Mendoza has received an [outpouring of support](https://twitter.com/search?q=jessica%20mendoza&src=typd) from baseball fans on Twitter eager to hear her take on the evening’s game. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4063839/jessica-mendoza-yankees-astros-mlb-playoffs-broadcast/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4063839/jessica-mendoza-yankees-astros-mlb-playoffs-broadcast/"},"headline":"Jessica Mendoza Will Make Baseball History at Tonight's Yankees-Astros Playoff Game","datePublished":"2015-10-06T22:11:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:25.918Z","description":"The All-American will become the first woman to call a nationally televised MLB playoff game","url":"https://time.com/4063839/jessica-mendoza-yankees-astros-mlb-playoffs-broadcast/","keywords":["Baseball","Living"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82eac737105cf49b/69886722bc6cfc32743d9c8e/gettyimages-457272360.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82eac737105cf49b/69886722bc6cfc32743d9c8e/gettyimages-457272360.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"35th Annual Salute To Women In Sports - Arrivals","caption":"35th Annual Salute To Women In Sports - Arrivals","creditText":"Michael Loccisano—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/baseball/","name":"Baseball"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4063839/jessica-mendoza-yankees-astros-mlb-playoffs-broadcast/","name":"Jessica Mendoza Will Make Baseball History at Tonight's Yankees-Astros Playoff Game"}}]}] ```