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Fox aired primetime Baseball Night in America games primarily on Saturday nights, as well as the All-Star Game and MLB at Field of Dreams games. [192] [193] With the move of Joe Buck to ESPN and Monday Night Football over the NFL offseason, Joe Davis became the new lead play-by-play announcer for Fox's MLB coverage. [194]
The 2022 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2022 season. The 118th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Houston Astros and the National League (NL) champion Philadelphia Phillies. The Astros defeated the Phillies in six games to earn their ...
Historical examples of Baseball Hall of Fame position players pitching in MLB games include Ty Cobb (four innings in 1918 and one inning in 1925), [13] Jimmie Foxx (one inning in 1939), [14] [b] Stan Musial (to a single batter in 1952), [15] Tris Speaker (one inning in 1914), [16] and Ted Williams (two innings in 1940). [17]
In Game 1, the Mariners held a 7–5 lead going into the bottom of the ninth until Houston's Yordan Alvarez hit a walk-off three-run home run to take Game 1 for the Astros. In Game 2, the Mariners again held a late lead, until Alvarez hit a two-run home run to put the Astros in the lead for good.
With the calendar tilting toward October and the number of Major League Baseball games remaining diminishes, the 2022 playoff picture becomes a little clearer.. Yet with three wild card slots in ...
Beginning with the Fort Bragg Game in 2016, MLB uses the term Specialty Games to refer to neutral-site games during the regular season in the U.S. and Canada. Other specialty games include the MLB Little League Classic, MLB in Omaha, MLB at Field of Dreams, MLB at Rickwood Field, and the MLB Speedway Classic. [1]
The Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason is the annual playoff elimination tournament held to determine the champion of MLB in the United States and Canada. Since 2022, the postseason for each league—American and National—consists of two best-of-three Wild Card Series contested by the lowest-seeded division winner and the three wild card teams, two best-of-five Division Series (LDS ...
The year began with Major League Baseball in a work-stoppage, due to the 2021–22 Major League Baseball lockout. [71] January 9 – Rachel Balkovec was hired as manager of the New York Yankees' Low-A Southeast affiliate, the Tampa Tarpons, making her the first woman to hold this position in the affiliated minor leagues. [72]