After an unexpected three-day break for the New York Yankees thanks to … Plus, the crowd sounds from the stadium were piped into their headsets.So, yes, that means they were also treated to eight different angles of the brutal one-hour, 58-minute rain delay.“You could see torrents of water,” Waldman said. He said he could feel himself taking an extra half-second to call a play, particularly when a ball was hit.

WFAN decides if John Sterling, Suzyn Waldman will call Yankees games in 2020 Updated Jan 02, 2020; Posted Jan 02, 2020 John Sterling will call New York Yankees games for WFAN in 2020. And then a monsoon hits.”Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our © 2020 Advance Local Media LLC. The radio voice of the Yankees, John Sterling, 81, will not be broadcasting on what was supposed to be Opening Day on Thursday. When Stanton scored following his homer, Waldman said she reflexively looked away from the monitor toward the Yankee Stadium first-base dugout to see who would come out and congratulate the slugger first.One thing that particularly helped, though, was the presence of a second, larger monitor that displayed eight different camera angles at once. Sterling, who also missed Wednesday's broadcast, was tested for COVID-19 on Wednesday as part of a battery of tests. All rights reserved ( WFAN Yankees radio broadcast team John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman.

NY Post | Andrew Marchand: New York’s radio voice, John Sterling, has been absent from the booth the last few days. They’ll also be able to work at Citi Field when the Yankees visit the Mets. “So that was easy to call.”But when Stanton later served a an RBI single to right field, tracking it was tough.“I knew it was over there somewhere,” Waldman said. The WFAN crew calls home and away games from Yankee Stadium Last July, Sterling’s streak of 5,058 consecutive games ended.Though not on the air Wednesday, Sterling’s voice sounded strong and he vowed to be back very soon.

The monitor makes it easy to call balls and strikes because it’s the live TV feed positioned right behind the mound, but they could only tell the general direction the ball was hit before cameras caught up to it, Waldman said.For example, Sterling was able to nail is patented “Giancarlo’s home run went 9 miles,” Sterling said. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. “But there are things you have to get used to and this is one crazy year.”So, Sterling and Waldman will be able to call home games as they normally would.

Yankees radio play-by-player John Sterling missed Wednesday’s game after feeling under the weather. (File photo)“Well, Suzyn,” he said, addressing his longtime radio partner “What?” Waldman said, sitting in a different booth, the pair separated by glass.Fortunately for baseball fans, Sterling and Waldman — The duo, who have worked together for 16 seasons, performed a first Thursday: They called a road game from home.As the Yankees earned a rain-shortened, 4-1 win in five innings over the Nationals at Nationals Park on Opening Day, Sterling and Waldman were a 250-mile drive away at Yankee Stadium.“It’s odd that no one’s there, no one’s in the ballpark,” Sterling said.

Sterling and Waldman were able to see both bullpens, both foul lines, a view above home plate and more. That’s how things are going lately.“The Yankees are humming along,” Sterling said. They were part of roughly seven people who were in their area of the stadium at the time, Waldman said.Still, of course, things had to take a turn at the last minute. Would you like to receive desktop browser notifications about breaking news and other major stories? TAMPA, Fla. -- John Sterling has perfected his Spring Training routine over the decades, generally using those sun-splashed weeks to escape the northeast frost and prepare for a 162-game grind ahead.

Yankees announcer John Sterling is missing Wednesday’s game vs the Orioles with an illness.

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