Caitlin Clark is good at many things, most notably shooting, passing and drawing an unprecedented amount of fans to basketball games. But can she call baseball games?
The answer to the question that absolutely no one was asking arrived Friday, via the TikTok account of Clark’s Indiana Fever teammate Lexie Hull.
With apparently nothing better to do on Wednesday, Clark tried her hand at play-by-play for a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies. As Hull described it, Clark claimed “she’d be a good commentator” and tried to prove it with some fourth-inning commentary.
We’ll give her this, Clark definitely has the voice for the broadcast booth, and some of the terminology down. We just don’t know how many times we’ve heard “This brings… someone to the plate” (it was Garrett Mitchell) and “it might have been the second batter, I’m not sure” during an MLB broadcast.
By the end, Clark couldn’t keep it together and fell laughing to the bed. She still decided to pitch the Phillies on some offseason work in the comments of Hull’s video.
Clark finished her rookie season Thursday, with numbers that will leave a mark on the WNBA history books. After her first 40 WNBA games, Clark holds the WNBA single-season and single-game records for assists, the second-most 3-pointers in a season in league history, the rookie records for points, assists and 3-pointers and the only rookie triple-doubles the WNBA has seen.
Beyond that, Clark has been a draw for the league on a level rarely seen in sports. Basically every WNBA broadcast partner set ratings records this season, all via Clark games, while the Fever saw enormous spikes in ticket sales, jersey sales and social media engagement.
It was fitting that Clark’s final game of the regular season was the most-attended in WNBA history. Now, we can only wait and see what happens when the Fever’s first playoff appearance since 2016 begins on Sunday.
