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Jessica Ofelia Mendoza (born November 11, 1980) is an American sportscaster and former
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player. Currently, she serves as a color commentator and analyst for
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's coverage of
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and
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coverage on
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. As a softball
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, Mendoza was a collegiate four-time First Team All-American and two-time
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medalist. Mendoza played from 1999 to 2002 at Stanford and was a member of the
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from 2004 to 2010. She won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She played professionally in
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and was named 2011 Player of the Year and currently ranks in the top 10 for career
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and slugging percentage. She was an analyst on
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's '' Sunday Night Baseball'' from 2016 to 2019. She was dropped from the ''Sunday Night Baseball'' broadcast after the 2019 season but remains an ESPN baseball analyst. Mendoza was named by fans and experts to the Greatest College Softball Team as an outfielder, one of only three to achieve the honor.


Early life

Mendoza, a graduate of
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, was named the ''
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'' Player of the Year in 1998. During her junior and senior years, she was named Camarillo High School's Female Athlete of the Year. Mendoza was also a member of the high school
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team and was the team MVP in her junior and senior years.


Playing career


Stanford Cardinal

Mendoza began her career as a 1999 First Team All-American and All- Pac-10 honoree. Included with her recognition, she was named Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year. She broke the Cardinal records for season
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and RBI totals while ranking top-10 for her hits. On March 6, 1999, in defeating
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, Mendoza had a single-game career high four hits off pitchers Corey Harris, Tammy Millian and Jamie Bagnall. Later that month, for the week of March 8, she was named National Fastpitch Coaches Association Player of the Week after hitting .631 (12/19) with 11 RBIs, 4 home runs, a
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and two doubles for a slugging percentage of 1.473. The sophomore's season saw her again earn First Team citations for the
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and the Pac-10. She added conference
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to her collection and broke her own record for batting average with a then-school and career-best .474, which also led the
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. She also claimed new records for hits, home runs, doubles, slugging, and stolen bases, which still rank top 10 for a season at Stanford. From February 29 through March 22, 2000, Mendoza went on a school-record 19-consecutive-game hit streak. She batted .561 (32/57) to accompany four home runs and 15 RBIs, striking out just once with a slugging of .842. Mendoza continued her success for the Cardinal with her third All-American and All- Pac-10 citations. She posted top-10 season records in virtually every category, still currently ranking second in single-season home runs and stolen bases. Mendoza helped lead Stanford to their first-ever
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appearance in 2001. The Cardinal were ousted on May 27 by the Arizona Wildcats despite wins over California Golden Bears and
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. Mendoza was named to the All-Tournament Team for hitting .250 with an RBI and a double. For her final season, Mendoza earned First Team citations for both conference and the
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. With her fourth straight honor from the
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, Mendoza joined elite company as only the fifth player to accomplish the feat then. That year she also tied her home run record and ranked top-10 in almost every other category. The week of March 4, she was named NFCA's Player of the Week for a third time. She had hit .647 (11/17) with a home run, five doubles, and 1.117 slugging. Later that season, on May 8 with a 10–2 victory over the
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, Mendoza drove in a career best six RBIs, four coming off her 50th career home-run swing with Carol Forbes pitching. Mendoza currently holds career records in average, hits, home runs, slugging, and runs. Her career doubles (ranked 7th in the
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all-time), triples, RBIs and walks are still top-10 records. She was also named Pac-10 Player of the Week three times, a top 25 finalist for
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, and the Speedline Invitational Tournament MVP. Mendoza graduated from Stanford with a
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in
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and
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.


Team USA

In 2004, Mendoza was a starting outfielder for
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at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Prior to the tournament, Mendoza hit .380 on the "Aiming For Athens" tour with 42 RBIs and 10 home runs. On August 14, Mendoza had two hits and two RBIs with a triple vs. Italy. She repeated her performance on August 19 against host Greece, with a double in that game.
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won the gold medal on August 23, though Mendoza was shut out by Australia. Overall, she went 5/20 (.250) scoring five times herself and hitting in 5 RBIs with a .400 slugging. In 2008, Mendoza was again an outfielder for
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and led in almost every category on the "Bound 4 Beijing" Tour. She hit .495 with 107 RBIs and a .971 slugging. At the Beijing Olympic Games, she drove in 4 RBIs vs. Chinese Taipei on August 14. In the finale, Mendoza was again shut out and her team won the silver medal, losing to Japan on August 21. In addition, Mendoza went directly onto the US team straight out of
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. In 2003 and 2007, she was a gold medalist at the Pan American Games. She also won the silver medal at both the World Cup and Japan Cup. In 2006, Jessica was named the USA Softball "Female Athlete of the Year." She played for Team USA in the World Cup again in 2007, this time bringing home that gold medal. She went 11/18 with a double, three home runs, and 16 RBIs. Mendoza won the
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, hitting .500 with 5 home runs and 16 RBIs. In 2008, she was named to the Canada Cup All-Star Team. Mendoza declined an invitation to play for the US in 2011 to focus on
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.


National Pro Fastpitch

Mendoza joined the
National Pro Fastpitch National Pro Fastpitch (NPF), formerly the Women's Pro Softball League (WPSL), was a professional women's softball league in the United States. The teams battled for the Cowles Cup. The WPSL was founded in 1997 and folded in 2001; the NPF revive ...
in 2005 with the
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. She hit a league best (though in limited playing time) .491 her rookie year. After returning from maternity leave and a role with
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, Mendoza signed with the
USSSA Pride The USSSA Pride are a professional softball team based in Viera, Florida and a member of the WPF - Women's Professional Fastpitch League, U.S. Founded in 2009. They previously played in National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) from 2009 to 2019. They play ...
. In her two seasons with the Pride, Mendoza hit .284 and .377, respectively. The same two years, her teams made the Cowles Cup championship, winning the title in 2010. Mendoza was shut out against the
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' trio of Kristina Thorson, Nikki Nemitz, and Jessica Sallinger. In the other finale, Mendoza was 2/4 with a double off
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in a rematch with the Bandits, who ultimately won 10–3 on August 21. Once again, Mendoza and the Pride made the Cowles Cup Championship but lost to the
Chicago Bandits The Chicago Bandits were a women's professional softball team based in Rosemont, Illinois. Since the 2005 season, they have played as a member of National Pro Fastpitch (NPF). The Bandits won the 2008 NPF championship, defeating the Washington ...
. Mendoza was shut out but walked twice.


Broadcasting career


ESPN

Mendoza works for
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and was a color analyst on '' Sunday Night Baseball'' telecasts. She also is an analyst for the
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and has worked as a sideline reporter for ESPN College Football coverage. On June 30, 2014, Mendoza began working on ESPN's ''
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''. She appeared on the Monday editions of the show. On June 16, 2015, Mendoza became the first female broadcaster in the booth for
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's
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coverage with
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. On August 24, Mendoza was the first female commentator for a Major League Baseball game in the history of ESPN, during a game between the
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and the
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. Six days later, Mendoza filled in for suspended color commentator
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for the Cubs
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game on '' Sunday Night Baseball''. Cubs pitcher
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pitched a no-hitter in the game.
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,
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and Mendoza called the
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on October 6, and Mendoza became the first female commentator in MLB postseason TV history. On January 13, 2016, ESPN announced that Mendoza would join the ''Sunday Night Baseball'' broadcast team full-time, with Shulman and
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. On October 6, 2017, Mendoza commentated for the
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, her first MLB post-season series, on ESPN Radio with broadcast partner
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. On March 5, 2019, the
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announced that Mendoza joined the club as a senior advisor to
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. This led to conflict of interest concerns, leading the
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to block Mendoza from entering their clubhouse as a media member before Dodgers games broadcast by ESPN in the 2019 season. The Dodgers had done the same with David Ross, who worked in the Chicago Cubs organization while also commentating for ESPN. On January 16, 2020, she created controversy when she criticized former Houston Astros pitcher
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for admitting to stealing signs during the team's World Series title run in 2017. The controversy surrounded the fact that she felt that Fiers should have reported his concerns to MLB authorities rather than simply share them with a reporter. Mendoza later backtracked and took to Twitter to clarify her comments. Amid concerns about a potential conflict of interest over her Mets role and the controversy of the Fiers comments, she later resigned from her role as Mets advisor and was dropped from ''Sunday Night Baseball'', but signed a contract extension with ESPN on February 7, 2020, to remain a baseball analyst with the network. In October 2020, Mendoza became the first female World Series analyst on any national broadcast platform; she was on ESPN's radio platform. In 2021, she was part of the broadcast team for
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during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.


Los Angeles Dodgers

In March 2022, it was announced that Mendoza would join the
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network to provide commentary for Los Angeles Dodgers games. She was a part of a group of network additions that included
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, Adrián González, José Mota, and
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.


Personal life

The daughter of Karen and Gil Mendoza, Mendoza has one brother and two sisters. Her father played football for four years for
Fresno State University California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) is a public university in Fresno, California. It is one of 23 campuses in the California State University system. The university had a fall 2020 enrollment of 25,341 students. It offers bache ...
. Mendoza is married to Adam Burks, with whom she has two sons. She is a second-generation Mexican-American, as stated in an ESPN article by Aimee Crawford published on October 11, 2011. Mendoza is a trustee and past president of the
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. She is an athletic ambassador for Team Darfur and board member of the
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.


In popular culture

For their first match of March 2019, the women of the
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each wore a jersey with the name of a woman they were honoring on the back;
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chose the name of Mendoza.


Statistics


Stanford Cardinal


Team USA


NPF Arizona Heat & USSSA Pride


References


Links

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NCAA Division I softball career .400 batting average list There are currently 134 batters and 51 records in the .400 Batting Average Club: * Note every player on the list played four seasons (except those currently with one year eligibility remaining) of at least 30 at-bats. Progression Jill Justin e ...
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NCAA Division I softball career 50 home runs list Jocelyn Alo holds the NCAA Division I softball home run record with 122. She passed Lauren Chamberlain, who hit 95, on March 11, 2022. List of home run leaders Records & Milestones Laura Espinoza hit an NCAA all-time season and senior class r ...


External links


ESPN bio



Interview on "Role Models" from CaptainU
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