Sunday Night Baseball
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| Genre | Sports |
| Starring | Jon Miller Joe Morgan Peter Gammons |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of seasons | 18th Season |
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| Running time | 3 hours (approximate) |
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| Original channel | ESPN (1990-) |
| Original run | April 15, 1990 – Present |
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| Preceded by | Baseball Tonight |
| Followed by | SportsCenter |
| Related shows | Mon Night Baseball Wed Night Baseball |
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Sunday Night Baseball is the Major League Baseball game of the week that is televised Sunday nights at 8 p.m, sometimes at 7 pm U.S. ET on ESPN during the regular season. (The official name is ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball Presented by Taco Bell; previous presenting sponsors included Nextel and Bank of America.) A few of the Sunday Night Baseball telecasts appear on ESPN2 and ESPN2HD rather than ESPN due to conflicts with other programming. Both Baseball Tonight and Sunday Night Baseball are also televised in high definition on ESPNHD.
The series debuted in 1990, and features play-by-play commentator Jon Miller and color commentator Joe Morgan. From 2004 until 2006, Sam Ryan had served as the field reporter, but left to join New York City's WCBS-TV and CBS Sports in June 2006.[1] On July 2, 2006 Bonnie Bernstein joined the crew as the new field reporter, but did not return in 2007 primarily due to her request to cut back her schedule because of her continued recovery from a bout with deep vein thrombosis in October, 2006. Beginning in 2006, Peter Gammons joined the broadcasts as a field reporter in the scouts position. Gammons, however, suffered a brain aneurysm and din't return until September 2006. [2]
Sunday Night Baseball opened the 2007 Major League Baseball season (their 18th season) on Sunday, April 1, with an NLCS rematch between the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals.
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The telecasts also utilize the K Zone, a computer-generated on-screen graphic that accurately outlines the strike zone and pitch location. A Skycam is also used; it is usually mounted 20 feet above the stands in foul territory and travels back and fourth along the first base line from behind home plate to the foul pole.
[edit] Commentators
A complete list of broadcasters, with their period of tenure on the show (beginning years of each season shown).
ESPN
- Bonnie Bernstein: (field reporter, July-September 2006)
- Peter Gammons: (field analyst, 2006-present)
- Jon Miller: (play-by-play, 1990-present)
- Joe Morgan: (analyst, 1990-present)
- Sam Ryan: (field reporter, 2004-2006)
[edit] History missed
ESPN was scheduled to televise the game between the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles from Oriole Park at Camden Yards on September 20, 1998. However, this was also the first season of the new Sunday night pro football contract in which ESPN showed games in every week of the season, instead of just the second half. ESPN sought permission from Major League Baseball to move the game, as well as two other late-season contests, to ESPN2. But Major League Baseball denied the request. (Interestingly, they have never objected when early season games were bumped to ESPN2 by events such as the Women's Final Four and the Stanley Cup playoffs.) Therefore, viewers instead saw a game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals. Meanwhile, in Baltimore, legendary shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. chose not to play in the Yankees-Orioles game, ending his all-time leading consecutive-games-played streak at 2,632.
It was not until 2000 that Major League Baseball gave ESPN permission to move the late-season games. In 2006, they returned to ESPN as the NFL Sunday night package has moved to NBC.
[edit] Other networks
In addition to the game being on ESPN, ESPN Domingo de Grandes Ligas (Major League Sunday) is also broadcasted on ESPN Deportes, the Spanish version of ESPN. On ESPN Deportes, Ernesto Jerez does play-by-play, Candy Maldonado is the color commentator, and Guillermo Celis is the field reporter.
ESPN Radio also has a radio broadcast of Sunday Night Baseball Presented by Xerox. Currently, Dan Shulman does the play-by-play and Dave Campbell serves as the color commentator on the ESPN Radio broadcasts. From 1998 to 2002, Charley Steiner did the play-by-play along with Campbell.
- See also: Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio
Prior to 1998, the CBS Radio Network aired Sunday night games, usually with Jerry Coleman and John Rooney announcing.
- See also: Major League Baseball on CBS Radio
Outside the USA, this weekly game has also been broadcast live on Five in the UK since 1997 and is the longest running programme on the channel. In Latin America the game is broadcasted on ESPN Latin America. When the NFL season begins, the game is moved to ESPN Dos (ESPN2) only for the audience in Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia and the Caribbean Islands. In Canada, the games can be seen on Rogers Sportsnet.
[edit] See also
- ESPN Major League Baseball
- Baseball Tonight
- Monday Night Baseball
- Wednesday Night Baseball
- Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio
- ESPN Major League Baseball broadcasters
- Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio broadcasters
- List of games televised on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball
[edit] References
- USA Today- Gammons to join Sunday Night Baseball
- Mediaweek - ESPN's Ryan Joins CBS Sports. Retrieved on June 12, 2006.
- ESPN.tv
[edit] External links
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