Unlike ESPN, FOX just goes ahead and plans the whole Baseball season out waaaay ahead of time, and just before pitchers and catchers report they release it for the world to enjoy. Or to see how many times the Red Sox and Yankees play on the network. Surprisingly though there are a total of four teams that appear on the network more than New York and Boston. Here's this year's team breakdown.....
Phillies - 9
Mariners - 9
Braves - 9
Twins - 9
Yankees - 8
Red Sox - 8
Cubs - 8
Mets - 8
Cardinals - 8
Angels - 7
Rangers - 7
Giants - 7
Rays - 5
White Sox - 5
FOX will also throw in a few 7pm games into the mix (May 22nd & June 26). All games start at 4pm EST unless otherwise noted....
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Saturday, April 10th (3pm)
New York Yankees at Tampa Bay Rays
St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers
Seattle Mariners at Texas Rangers
Saturday, April 17th
New York Mets at St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland Indians
San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers
Saturday, April 24th
New York Yankees at Anaheim Angels
Seattle Mariners at Chicago White Sox
Saturday, May 1st (3pm)
New York Mets at Philadelphia Phillies
Texas Rangers at Seattle Mariners
Houston Astros at Atlanta Braves
Saturday, May 8th (3pm)
New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox
Atlanta Braves at Philadelphia Phillies
Saturday, May 15th
Philadelphia Phillies at Milwaukee Brewers
Seattle Mariners at Tampa Bay Rays
Houston Astros at San Francisco Giants
Saturday, May 22nd (7pm)
New York Yankees at New York Mets
Boston Red Sox at Philadelphia Phillies
Chicago Cubs at Texas Rangers
Detroit Tigers at Los Angeles Dodgers
Saturday, May 29th
St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
Texas Rangers at Minnesota Twins
Seattle Mariners at Anaheim Angels
Saturday, June 5th
Florida Marlins at New York Mets
Milwaukee Brewers at St. Louis Cardinals
Anaheim Angels at Seattle Mariners
Saturday, June 12th
Philadelphia Phillies at Boston Red Sox
Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs
Saturday, June 19th
Los Angeles Dodgers at Boston Red Sox
Minnesota Twins at Philadelphia Phillies
Saturday, June 26th (7pm)
New York Yankees at Los Angeles Dodgers
Boston Red Sox at San Francisco Giants
Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox
Saturday, July 3rd
Milwaukee Brewers at St. Louis Cardinals
Tampa Bay Rays at Minnesota Twins
Florida Marlins at Atlanta Braves
Saturday, July 10th
Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers
Atlanta Braves at New York Mets
Minnesota Twins at Detroit Tigers
Saturday, July 17th
Tampa Bay Rays at New York Yankees
Los Angeles Dodgers at St. Louis Cardinals
Saturday, July 24th
New York Mets at Los Angeles Dodgers
Colorado Rockies at Philadelphia Phillies
Minnesota Twins at Baltimore Orioles
Saturday, July 31st
Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox
Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco Giants
Seattle Mariners at Minnesota Twins
Saturday, August 7th
Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees
San Francisco Giants at Atlanta Braves
Saturday, August 14th
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals
San Diego Padres at San Francisco Giants
Baltimore Orioles at Tampa Bay Rays
Saturday, August 21st
Atlanta Braves at Chicago Cubs
Anaheim Angels at Minnesota Twins
Texas Rangers at Baltimore Orioles
Saturday, August 28th
Philadelphia Phillies at San Diego Padres
Minnesota Twins at Seattle Mariners
Florida Marlins at Atlanta Braves
Saturday, September 4th
New York Mets at Chicago Cubs
Anaheim Angels at Oakland A’s
Texas Rangers at Minnesota Twins
Saturday, September 11th
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets
St. Louis Cardinals at Atlanta Braves
Seattle Mariners at Anaheim Angels
Saturday, September 18th
Atlanta Braves at New York Mets
Detroit Tigers at Chicago White Sox
Colorado Rockies at Los Angeles Dodgers
Saturday, September 25th
TBD
Saturday, October 2nd
TBD
Dodgers have 9 games but aren't in the list. I was worried at first lol
ReplyDeleteWay to completely ignore the Royals, Blue Jays, D-backs, Reds, Pirates, and Nationals, MLB! That's how you grow the game; act like the teams that need the most help don't even exist!
ReplyDeleteThose teams are terrible, Todd, and no one wants to watch them. Ratings poison. How do you not get this.
ReplyDeleteThe Twins get more games than the Yankees. I AM TIRED OF THIS PRO-MINNEAPOLIS BIAS!!!
Oh, absolutely they are, but MLB has the opportunity to throw them on at least one broadcast per summer and refuses to so that they can feature...whom, exactly? The Orioles? The White Sox? The Indians? C'mon. If those teams can get multiple games, they should just feature every team at least once in an effort to at least acknowledge their existance. Baseball already skews itself towards the upper echelon too much as it is; leaving these teams without a nationally broadcast game while you feature the Yankees and Red Sox and Dodgers and Mets scores of times is just stupid.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing I hate the most about nationally broadcast baseball games in when the Fox Saturday game of the week and the ESPN Sunday game of the week are the same series. MLB needs to fix this situation because the national audience does not want to see the the same two teams play two days in a row.
ReplyDeleteIt's similar to when SNF or MNF have back to back weeks of the NFC East. It gets old fast...
I agree with what DCS says. I hate when I'm stuck with the same two teams for two days in a row (usually NY, NY, and Boston, but some others fit in there too). They need to diversify and give every team at least an appearance.
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ReplyDeleteSo... as a Red Sox fan, there are 8 more games that I will listen to on the radio (in addition to the 2 Joe Morgan debacles on Sunday Night Baseball), because there's nothing worse than having to endure the ridiculousness of a FOX broadcast (in ANY sport)....most notably that with Buck & McCarver.
ReplyDelete"Those teams are terrible, Todd, and no one wants to watch them. Ratings poison. How do you not get this."
ReplyDeleteSure, the Royals are terrible, but you'd at least figure Zack Grienke would bring some bank and some intrigue to a game. I think they were on more than once last season, and they've got a Sunday Night Baseball appearance this season. That's actually a bit baffling.
JHitts, I agree on Grienke (I'm a Red Sox fan), but he's a starting pitcher. With the schedule set 2 months before the regular season starts, there's a 1 in 5 chance they'll televise a game Zack starts. Pretty long odds. We all know this is about one thing - ratings. KC, Pittsburgh, Washington, who'd watch outside of those cities?
ReplyDeleteSure, you'll likely take a ratings hit by showing games from those cities (though, I'd counter by asking if it'd be much more than showing Rays games if they're not in contention). But if you're not going to include all of the teams in the national broadcasting package, why do you require one representative per team in the All-Star game?
ReplyDeleteFox has carried games for 15 years now, and I don't think they've aired a single Blue Jays game.
ReplyDeleteGood for Fox, though...it's the only way that the Red Sox end up on free television in Boston.
Great, Thanks FOX for contracting MLB to a more managable 14 teams!
ReplyDeleteGee, New Orleans and Indy are in the Super Bowl today. Those are two minor league cities. I guess nobody will watch and ratings will be bad because, let's face it, nobody wants to watch New Orleans or Indy or KC or Pittsburgh. ... Just another example of how the NFL has it right and MLB doesn't know its collective a$$ from a hole in the ground.
ReplyDeleteAwesome, hopefully I'll be watching Man United at 2:45 on FOX, then Yankees at 7 on May 22
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