Mendoza, a two-time Olympic medalist as a U.S. softball player, will replace Curt Schilling in the booth alongside Dan Schulman and Aaron Boone, who is replacing John Kruk as he moves back to the “Baseball Tonight” broadcast.
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Mendoza became the first female to serve as in in-game analyst during an MLB game broadcast by ESPN in August and set another mark when she became the first female analyst to call a nationally televised MLB postseason game when she sat in the booth for the American League wild-card game in October.
Mendoza and Boone will be the fifth analyst team for “Sunday Night Baseball” since the departure of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan in 2010.
