Marquee Sports Network will rotate three fill-in play-by-play announcers when Cubs voice Jon “Boog” Sciambi fulfills his ESPN commitments, station general manager Mike McCarthy said Wednesday. And one of them will make history.
Beth Mowins, who has worked for ESPN since 1994, will become the first woman to call play-by-play for the Cubs. Mowins primarily has called men’s and women’s college sports, and in 2017 she became the first woman in 30 years to call an NFL game.
Pat Hughes will take a break from calling the Cubs on 670 The Score to fill in. Hughes last called baseball on TV in 1983, his first year in the majors, as the voice of the Twins on Spectrum Sports, a pay-TV service.