Suzyn Waldman couldn’t forget the sound.
“It was a thump,” she said. “I could not sleep Saturday night. I just kept hearing it.”
That particular slice of noise cut through the audio commotion as Alex Rodriguez stepped up to pinch hit in the seventh inning at Turner Field. Waldman, and play-by-play voice John Sterling, heard the “thump” below them. They didn’t know what caused it. She leaned over as far as she could from the WFAN radio booth to get a look but only saw the crowd of fans below.
Then a friend watching the Yankees-Braves telecast on Fox Sports 1 texted Waldman.