The camera zooms in to the pitcher’s mound at a digitally modified Globe Life Park – usually the home of the Texas Rangers – during a game between two apparent Major League Baseball teams. A batter steps into box amid the gaze from his teammates in the dugout. The crowd appears anxious and excited, rallying in a way that is hardly ever the case during the first inning of a regular season game.
“This is history in the making,” the announcer says. And just before the windup and the first pitch is thrown, he says, “the first woman in the majors.