Rylee Pay is an announcer, host, and commentator in her second season with the Tacoma Rainiers, the Triple-A Affiliate of the Seattle Mariners. In 2025, Rylee made history becoming the first woman to be a lead play-by-play voice in Triple-A baseball. With the Rainiers, she calls all 150 games of the regular season on KIXI880AM. She is one of three women currently working in a play-by-play role in Minor League Baseball.

 

Prior to Tacoma, Rylee was a broadcast and media relations assistant with the Portland Sea Dogs, the Double-A Affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. Her and Emma Tiedemann formed the first all female booth in Double-A baseball while forming just the second in all of professional affiliated baseball in 2023. In 2024, they became the first female voices to provide play-by-play for the Boston Red Sox in team history on NESN. She also anchors and produces sports radio for "The Sports Flash" year-round.

 

Rylee graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in May of 2023 where she obtained a degree in Journalism and Media Studies with a concentration in Sports Media. With UNLV, she interned in the strategic communications sector of the Athletic Department where she worked directly with UNLV baseball as a PA announcer, emcee, and assistant to the SID. Her work with the sports information department involved assisting in social media management and media relations year-round. Rylee also served as a PA announcer for UNLV softball along with men's and women's soccer. She represented the university as a student-athlete and four-year member/captain of the UNLV Pom Team while also serving as a SAAC representative for the program.

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Rylee interned with the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters of the Northwoods Collegiate League as an emcee and marketing intern in the summer of 2021 before serving as a broadcaster with the Cotuit Kettleers in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League in 2022.

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As a Las Vegas native, her love of sports began at a young age after attending countless Runnin' Rebels basketball games with her dad. Along the way, she developed a love of baseball by flipping through her great grandpa's scorebook. When she's not at a ballpark, Rylee enjoys hiking, spending time at the beach, traveling, and of course... watching more sports.

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