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The 2021 Major League Baseball season began on April 1, while the regular season ended on October 3. [1] The postseason began on October 5. The World Series then began on October 26 and ended on November 2 with the Atlanta Braves defeating the Houston Astros in six games to win their second title since moving to Atlanta.
The World Series then aired on the Fox broadcast network for the 22nd consecutive year. [14] Under the three broadcasters' renewed TV deals lasting from 2022 until 2028, among other changes, ESPN was awarded the rights to all Wild Card round games, and Fox took over the selected Division Series games that were held by MLB Network. [15] [16] [17]
ESPN Sunday Night Baseball telecasts were exclusive. TBS televised 13 straight weeks of Sunday afternoon games and also televised the National League postseason. The American League postseason was split between ESPN, Fox/FS1, and MLB Network (AL Wild Card on ESPN, the ALDS split between FS1 and MLB Network, and the ALCS on Fox and FS1).
Get ready: Baseball's postseason begins Tuesday with a high-stakes Yankees-Red Sox showdown.
ESPN also airs a weekly highlight show called Baseball Tonight at 6 p.m. ET on Sundays as a lead-in to Sunday Night Baseball; previously it was a daily program until 2017, when layoffs cut back the show's airing to Sundays. With ESPN's most recent contract signed in 2021, ESPN Major League Baseball is guaranteed to remain on air through the ...
The program debuted in 1990, when ESPN first acquired MLB rights.This gave ESPN to have Sunday Night Baseball and Wednesday Night Baseball.From 2000 to 2005, broadcasts consisted of a doubleheader, usually airing the first game at 7:00 pm ET on ESPN and the second at 10:00 pm ET on ESPN2.
The MLB postseason is officially underway, with dozens of must-watch games on the schedule. Tonight will see the Atlanta Braves go up against the Houston Astros for Game 1 of the World Series ...
Game 6 was the final Major League Baseball game that Buck called on Fox and one of the final major sporting events he called on the network (his final broadcast on Fox was the 2021 NFC Championship Game). MLB International fed the series to broadcasters outside the United States, with Scott Braun providing play-by-play and Dan Plesac as color ...