The coronavirus postponed the start of the baseball season and shut down nearly everything else, but now Major League Baseball is back for a 60-game…
The coronavirus postponed the start of the baseball season and shut down nearly everything else, but now Major League Baseball is back for a 60-game sprint of a season. MLB also announced a newly expanded postseason — if it can find a way to complete the regular season first.
Ten teams have seen their games postponed due to COVID-19 outbreaks, starting with the Miami Marlins, and three of the 15 games scheduled for Friday and Saturday have been postponed. It’s still unclear when or how the games will be made up, but MLB is revising its scheduling to accommodate the situation, including a possibility of playing seven-inning doubleheaders.
The schedule is in flux for multiple teams, but the majority of games remain on track over the weekend. You can’t head to the ballpark and attend a game in person, but there are plenty of ways to watch on TV. Here’s how you can watch the shortened 2020 season without cable.
The Red Sox and Yankees meet for game 2 of their series in New York. The game starts at 7:10 p.m. ET (4:10 p.m. PT) on Fox. In other parts of the country Fox viewers will see the Houston Astros play the Los Angeles Angels instead. At 9:10 p.m. ET (6:10 p.m. PT), ESPN Plus will show the Oakland A’s vs. the Seattle Mariners.
Other teams around the league play on regional sports networks.
The 2020 season may be drastically different than the usual six-month, 162-game campaign of past years, but the ways to watch regular-season baseball has not changed. The national networks that carry MLB games in normal seasons — Fox, Fox Sports 1, TBS, MLB Network and ESPN — are going to be broadcasting games in 2020.
