Derek Jeter 3K

I worked as location sound recordist on Derek Jeter 3K, the documentary produced around one of the most anticipated moments in baseball that year — Derek Jeter’s 3,000th career hit. It happened on July 9, 2011 at Yankee Stadium, and it happened the way every baseball fan would have written it: a home run off the first pitch from Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price. Jeter was 37 years old and became the 28th player in MLB history to reach the milestone.

The documentary captures the buildup to that moment and the reaction on and off the field. Production audio on a baseball documentary involves navigating the stadium acoustic environment — a mix of crowd roar, PA system, field noise, and the tight quarters of the dugout and clubhouse. Getting clean ISO tracks from talent in that environment means anticipating where the story is going to happen and being positioned before it does.

Jeter was one of the last players of his era who had never played for any team other than the Yankees. The whole stadium knew the milestone was coming, which meant the crowd — and the ambient energy of the production — was different from a typical game day. That made it a memorable production to be part of.