Caitlin Clark is good at many things, most notably shooting, passing, and attracting unprecedented numbers of fans to basketball games, but can she also commentate on baseball games?
The answer to the question that absolutely no one had asked came Friday via the TikTok account of Clark’s Indiana Fever teammate, Lexie Hull.
Seemingly having nothing better to do on Wednesday, Clark tried her hand at commentating on a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Philadelphia Phillies. As Hull described it, Clark claimed “she would be a good commentator” and tried to prove it with some commentary in the fourth inning.
You have to give her credit: Clark definitely has the right voice for the announcer’s booth and knows some of the lingo. We just don’t know how many times we’ve heard during an MLB broadcast, “That’s going to put … someone at bat” (it was Garrett Mitchell) and “it might have been the second batter, I’m not sure.”
In the end, Clark couldn’t contain herself and fell into bed laughing. In the comments to Hull’s video, she still decided to suggest some offseason work for the Phillies.
Clark finished her rookie season on Thursday with numbers that will go down in 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 made in a season in league history, the rookie records for points, assists and 3-pointers made, and the only rookie triple-doubles the WNBA has ever seen.
Moreover, Clark has been a draw for the league in a way rarely seen in sports. Essentially every WNBA broadcast partner has set ratings records this season, all of them covering Clark games, while the Fever have seen huge increases in ticket sales, jersey sales and social media engagement.
It was fitting that Clark’s final regular-season game was the highest-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.
