BOSTON — Emma Tiedemann and Rylee Pay have been calling Portland Sea Canine video games for the previous two seasons. On Monday evening, the duo knocked one out of the park after they entered the NESN sales space with Pink Sox voice Dave O’Brien and analyst Kevin Youkilis at Fenway Park.
“I nonetheless cannot imagine it occurred, truthfully. Nevertheless it was nice,” Tiedemann informed NESN.com after the sport. “The whole lot was easy, and Dave and Youk have been wonderful. Everybody was so welcoming and affected person with us. Studying all of the totally different ins and outs on the huge league stage that we do not have in Portland.”
“I believe I am nonetheless numb,” Pay added. “Simply felt the shoulders chill out a bit of bit. Now, you sort of take all of it in and actually take into consideration all that it meant and all that it’ll imply. I believe simply a type of issues the place it is only a surreal second, and to sit down again and take into consideration this dream that you have had for therefore lengthy, coming true on a day in August has been actually particular.”
Initially, Tiedemann and Pay have been supposed to enhance O’Brien and Youkilis and name simply the three center frames of the Pink Sox’s nightcap of the doubleheader with the Blue Jays, however issues modified halfway via the sport when Pink Sox coordinating producer Amy Johnson came to visit the headset and instructed the pair proceed calling the sport after the top of the sixth inning.
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“When someone like Dave O’Brien turns to you and says, ‘You possibly can simply end out the sport,'” Tiedemann mentioned. “I imply, my abdomen sort of dropped a bit of bit, like, ‘Wait, I am getting extra?’
“I believe that was most likely one of many recollections I will take with me endlessly. To have a man like Dave O’Brien hand over his innings of play-by-play to offer Rylee and me some further time on the mic, I imply, that was such a sort gesture and made this evening much more particular.”
The Blue Jays swept the Pink Sox within the day-night doubleheader, however Pay did have one spectacular name within the backside of the eighth inning when Jarren Duran smacked his nineteenth dwelling run of the season.
“One other surreal second,” Pay mentioned. “It was superior as a result of it was a type of the place you knew it off the bat. Lifeless heart is at all times enjoyable, too. And I believe the kind of participant he’s, it was a extremely cool one. Got here in at an enormous spot, too.
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“The group was so loud, and that was what I used to be actually trying ahead to, amongst different issues tonight, was simply listening to Fenway and the rumblings and the entire fan base as a result of I believe that is one thing that makes Boston so particular.”
Fenway Park is far greater than the Sea Canine stadium in Portland, however Tiedemann mentioned the sellout crowds can get fairly loud at Hadlock Subject.
“Sea Canine followers come out, and we promote out virtually each evening,” Tiedemann defined. “Hadlock Subject will get rocking, too. In Portland, when there is a ninth-inning rally, the press field is shaking at instances.”
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Pay added: “One thing so cool about being in Portland, within the minor league metropolis that it’s, is that the followers that we now have are really Pink Sox followers. They present up for us each single day and actually do worth the panorama of the farm system and care a lot about Boston as effectively.”
