Wednesday Night Baseball
| Wednesday Night Baseball | |
|---|---|
| Genre | American baseball game telecasts |
| Presented by | Various commentators |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 37 (through 2026 season) |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Various MLB stadiums (game telecasts) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 210 minutes or until game ends (inc. adverts) |
| Production companies | Major League Baseball ESPN (1990–present) |
| Original release | |
| Network | ESPN |
| Release | April 18, 1990 – present |
| Related | |
| Baseball Tonight ESPN Major League Baseball Monday Night Baseball Sunday Night Baseball | |
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Wednesday Night Baseball is a live game telecast of Major League Baseball during Wednesday nights in the regular season on ESPN or ESPN2. From 1990 to 2021, ESPN generally aired weekly games on Wednesday nights. Beginning with the 2022 Major League Baseball season, ESPN significantly reduced their MLB schedule, which included cutting most of their Wednesday Night Baseball games.
On ESPN, the game generally starts at 7:00 pm ET, following SportsCenter, and usually lasted around three hours with an hour-long Baseball Tonight following the game leading up to the 11:00 pm ET SportsCenter (1:00 am ET for September games with Baseball Tonight moving to ESPN2 at 12:00 am ET). Every April some broadcasts aired on ESPN2 due to ESPN's priority with Wednesday NBA coverage.
Until 2022, Wednesday Night Baseball was not exclusive and was usually blacked out in the teams' local markets, where the respective local broadcasters could still air the game, unless local broadcasters chose not to televise the game. Since 2022, ESPN's limited Wednesday Night Baseball is now exclusive to the network.