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Watch Caitlin Clark try her luck in baseball by delivering her announcing words
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Watch Caitlin Clark try her luck in baseball by delivering her announcing words

Caitlin Clark is good at many things, especially shooting, passing and drawing an unprecedented number of fans to basketball games. But can she cover baseball?

The answer to the question absolutely no one asked arrived Friday via Clarks’ Indiana Fever teammate Lexie Hull’s TikTok account.

With seemingly nothing better to do on Wednesday, Clark tried her luck with play-by-play for a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies. As Hull described it, Clark claimed that “she would make a good commentator” and tried to prove it with commentary in the fourth inning.

We’ll give her this, Clark definitely has the voice for the broadcast booth and has mastered some of the terminology. We just don’t know how many times we’ve heard “This brings… somebody to the plate” (it was Garrett Mitchell) and “It could have been the second batter, I’m not sure” during an MLB broadcast.

Finally, Clark couldn’t take it anymore and fell onto her bed laughing. She decided to pitch the Phillies for some offseason work in the comments of Hull’s video.

Screenshot of Cailtin Clark's comment on Lexie Hull's video. (TikTok)Screenshot of Cailtin Clark's comment on Lexie Hull's video. (TikTok)

What do the Phillies have to lose? (TikTok)

Clark wrapped up her rookie season on Thursday with numbers that will go down in WNBA history. 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 ever seen.

In addition, Clark is drawing attention to the league on a level rarely seen in sports. Virtually every WNBA broadcast partner has set ratings records this season, all via Clark games, while the Fever has seen huge spikes in ticket sales, jersey sales and social media engagement.

It was fitting that Clark’s final regular-season game was the best-attended in WNBA history. Now all that remains to be seen is what happens when the Fever’s first playoff appearance since 2016 begins Sunday.