![]() Schedule: ESPN continues to air baseball three nights a week, with Sunday Night Baseball beginning it's 24th season on Opening Night, as new AL West rivals Texas and Houston battle at Minute Maid Park. The network may also challenge MLB Network and ESPN in the studio department, as FS1 will air a nightly MLB look-in show once 2014 begins. Fox Sports 1 will also air half of the Division Series and may get afternoon LCS games. ![]() Fox will keep a 12-week, primetime Saturday package of MLB games, along with the World Series and All-Star Game, while a full 26-week schedule of games will air on Fox Sports 1, which will launch Aug. In 2014: Fox Sports as a company gains more baseball, while Fox as a broadcast network loses much of it. ET, to prevent conflict with the network's college football package. Fox will also move all of its September baseball broadcasts to 1 p.m. New Stuff: Fox probably changes it's baseball coverage the least of the three networks that broadcast games, but the eight weeks in a row of prime time baseball remain an excellent add-on. Studio Crew: As previously mentioned, MLB Network runs Fox's pre-game show, meaning you can expect a rotating cast of characters from that network on Fox's coverage, though Matt Vasgersian anchored the network's playoff and World Series coverage last season. Don't forget the usual Fox voices (Thom Brennaman, Kenny Albert, Dick Stockton, Eric Karros, etc.) who usually hang out with you on Saturdays. That crew (along with Erin Andrews) will call the American League Championship Series and the World Series together this season.įox will also be borrowing game analysts from MLB Network, with Harold Reynolds, Eric Byrnes and Kevin Millar expected to contribute. Buck and McCarver have been Fox's lead pair for 18 years now. Joe Buck, McCarver and Ken Rosenthal remain Fox's lead baseball crew, though as always, Buck will be away for many weeks due to NFL commitments. MLB Player Poll will also return and air an hour prior to Fox's broadcasts.īroadcast Teams: This will be Tim McCarver's final season broadcasting baseball nationally on a full-time basis. I was pleased to see Fox bring back the pre-game show after a hiatus of a couple years, and I think it was a great showcase for how well MLB Network's crew does baseball. Fox will also air the 84th MLB All-Star Game from Citi Field in Queens on Tuesday, July 16.īaseball Shows: Fox operates a half-hour pre-game show out of MLB Network's studios in Secaucas, N.J. Louis-San Francisco, Los Angeles Angels-Texas. ET with regional coverage: New York Yankees-Detroit, St. Coverage debuts Saturday, April 6 at 3:30 p.m. based club will get at least one home game during Fox's eight-week sojourn into prime time. Fox will air MLB coverage on 24 Saturdays this season, and eight of the games will be in prime time.Įvery American team (but not the star-studded Toronto Blue Jays) will make an appearance on Fox this season, and every U.S. ![]() This is the final year of Game of the Week, once a baseball institution, airing exclusively on broadcast television. Schedule: Fox remains home to the World Series through 2021, which will mark Fox's 26th year of broadcasting baseball ( I KNOW!). I talked to some people behind the scenes at each network in an effort to give you a guide to every network's plans to televise America's Pastime from now until October. Even for me, it means Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez, and the rest of baseball's broadcasters return.įour national networks will air coverage of baseball games during the 2013 season, the last time that will happen before it increases to five in 2014. I assume, however, that many other people actually see the return of MLB as a positive in their life. For those of you who don't know, I am a New York Mets fan, and therefor, I need baseball back like a need a dagger to the spleen.
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