''Baseball Night in America'' is an American television presentation of

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(MLB) games produced by Fox Sports for the Fox network. Fox's coverage includes 17 weeks worth of coverage as of

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. Coverage usually includes 2 to 4 separate games all starting at 7PM ET, local affiliates air the game of most interest to their audience.

History

While Fox has aired ''

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'' games since

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, Fox only began using the ''Baseball Night in America ''branding in 2012. In the inaugural season, the ''Baseball Night in America'' branding was used for games from May 26 to July 7. Until

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(although it still airs currently), ''Baseball Night in America'' aired every Saturday from the last week in May to the second week in July. Beginning with the

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season, late season ''Fox Saturday Baseball'' games moved from the afternoon to

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. therefore a separate section of games was added for September. Some of these September games aired on Thursday night as ''

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''. Because of the

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delaying the 2020 season, ''Fox Saturday Baseball'' returned to airing some afternoon Saturday games. Fox aired Saturday primetime games between July 25 and August 1, and between September 12 and September 26, as well as on August 15. Fox returned to their 2019 scheduling for the 2021 season. For the 2022 season, Fox will air ''Baseball Night in America'' games every Saturday from May 26 to September 10, as well as on Saturday, October 1. Fox will also air two other weeks of prime time games in September as ''Thursday Night Baseball'' games. This is the result of Fox increasing the amount of games they air on broadcast television in their new television contract, as well as a side effect of the loss of

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's Thursday night NFL games outside of local syndication.

On air staff

Play-by-play commentators

* Joe Davis (Lead) *

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* Don Orsillo *

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Color commentators

* John Smoltz (Lead) * Eric Karros *

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* Mark Sweeney

Field reporters

* Ken Rosenthal *

Studio

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(Host) * Frank Thomas (Analyst) * Dontrelle Willis (Analyst) * Nick Swisher (Analyst) *

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(Analyst)

Ratings

2020 season

2021 season

2022 season

References

External links

* {{Major League Baseball on national television 2012 American television series debuts 2010s American television series 2020s American television series Fox Broadcasting Company original programming Fox Sports original programming Sports telecast series Major League Baseball on television