Part of the reason sports are so weird to watch right now is that they’re just as weird to broadcast. Baseball announcers aren’t traveling to road games, instead calling away games from the broadcast booth of their empty home stadium, where they sit on opposite sides of the room. For the Yankees’ series in Baltimore last week, YES had Michael Kay and David Cone in the Bronx and Paul O’Neill patched in from his basement in Ohio. The broadcasters watch the game on video monitors, basically seeing what you’re seeing at home.
The awkwardness of the setup can sometimes come through on the broadcast, like when Luke Voit hit a grand slam and Kay wasn’t sure whether it was a homer or an easy out.