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MLB games today: Full TV schedule for 2022 Opening Day baseball on ESPN, Fox, MLB Network

MLB games today: Full TV schedule for 2022 Opening Day baseball on ESPN, Fox, MLB Network

Fans can breathe a sigh of relief: MLB is officially back.

After a months-long lockout, the prospect of seeing MLB games any earlier than the summer seemed, at points, to be dim. But the games are actually here, slated to begin Thursday and carry on through the rest of the year.

This year’s Opening Day, for the first time in five years, will be split between Thursday and Friday. Not every team is going to play on Thursday, and not every team will play on Friday. But every team will be back in action on Saturday.

With first pitches scheduled to be thrown out over the course of the next three days, The Sporting News is breaking down exactly how to watch each team play their first games of the season, and where to find the nationally televised matchups. 

Here’s everything you need to know about Opening Day 2022.

MORE: Watch MLB Opening Day games live with fuboTV (free trial)

MLB Opening Day schedule 2022

The first few days of baseball will feature a handful of nationally televised games, with some slated to be carried by MLB Network, one on ESPN2 and one on FS1. There are also going to be three games carried by ESPN+ and two by Apple TV+.

Thursday, April 7

Here’s a look at the full schedule of games scheduled for Thursday.

Game Time Channel
Brewers at Cubs 2:20 p.m. ET MLB Network, BSWI, Marquee SN, fuboTV
Guardians at Royals 4:10 p.m. ET BSGL, BSKC, fuboTV
Pirates at Cardinals 4:15 p.m. ET ATT SportsNet, BSMW, fuboTV
Mets at Nationals 7:05 p.m. ET ESPN+
Reds at Braves 8 p.m. ET ESPN2, fuboTV
Astros at Angels 9:38 p.m. ET ATT SportsNet SW, BSW, fuboTV
Padres at Diamondbacks 9:40 p.m. ET BSSD, BSA, fuboTV

Friday, April 8

Here’s a look at the full schedule of games on Friday.

Game Time Channel
Red Sox at Yankees 1:05 p.m. ET MLB Network, NESN, YES Network, fuboTV
White Sox at Tigers 1:10 p.m. ET ESPN+
Brewers at Cubs 2:20 p.m. ET BSWI, Marquee SN, fuboTV
Athletics at Phillies 3:05 p.m. ET MLB Network, NBCSCA, NBCP, fuboTV
Orioles at Rays 3:10 p.m. ET MASN, BSF, fuboTV
Dodgers at Rockies 4:10 p.m. ET ATT SportsNet LA, ATT SportsNet RM, fuboTV
Mariners at Twins 4:10 p.m. ET Root Sports NW, BSNO, fuboTV
Marlins at Giants 4:35 p.m. ET FSF, NBCSBA, fuboTV
Mets at Nationals 7:05 p.m. ET Apple TV+
Rangers at Blue Jays 7:07 p.m. ET BSSW, Sportsnet, fuboTV
Reds at Braves 7:20 p.m. ET BSO, BSS, fuboTV
Astros at Angels 9:38 p.m. ET Apple TV+
Padres at Diamondbacks 9:40 p.m. ET BSSD, BSA, fuboTV

Saturday, April 9

Here’s a look at the nationally televised games currently scheduled for Saturday.

Game Time Channel
Red Sox at Yankees 4:00 p.m. ET FS1, fuboTV
Dodgers at Rockies 8:10 p.m. ET ESPN+

How to watch MLB games on Opening Day

Nearly all of the games on Opening Day will be broadcast on regional sports networks, meaning that viewers will need to be within their region to view them on cable television.

Across the first two days of Opening Day, however, there will be a few nationally televised games. The first two Mets vs. Nationals games on Thursday and Friday will be on ESPN+ and Apple TV+, respectively. The Reds vs. Braves on Thursday will be on ESPN2. The White Sox vs. Tigers game on Friday will be on ESPN+, and the Astros at Angels on Saturday will also be on Apple TV+.

Each day, there will be an afternoon game on MLB Network, depending on locality. On Thursday, fans not in the Milwaukee or Chicago regions will see the Brewers vs. Cubs on MLB Network. On Friday, the network will broadcast the Red Sox vs. Yankees game for anyone not in the region, or Athletics vs. Phillies for those who are in the Boston or New York regions.

MLB live streams for Opening Day

Fans hoping to catch a glimpse of MLB action over the two-day Opening Day will also have the option to stream the games instead.

MLB TV

Fans can watch MLB games that aren’t in their local market using MLB TV. If a viewer tries to access a game that is being carried by their local cable station, it will be blacked out.

The yearly package costs $129.99 per year, $24.99 per month or $109.99 for watching only a single team.

Network apps

There are options to stream the nationally televised games as well. ESPN and Fox Sports have their own streaming apps that will carry their channels.

Those are WatchESPN, ESPN+ and Fox Sports Go.

The only way to watch the Apple TV+ games will be with an Apple TV+ subscription. It offers a seven-day free trial, and costs $4.99 per month after the trial period.

Online streaming bundles

But if interest is more in the local games, there are streaming bundles that include access to the channels on which the games will be broadcast.

DirecTV stream, YouTube TV, Hulu Live and fuboTV all provide access to select TV channels that will carry several of the games.

In Canada, viewers can find Sportsnet, which carries the Blue Jays, and MLB Network on fuboTV.

How to watch MLB games in Canada

Baseball fans in Canada can watch MLB games on Sportsnet, TSN, TVA Sports and RDS. All Blue Jays games are broadcast live on Sportsnet One in Toronto.

MLB Network, which hosts various live games all season, can be live-streamed on both DAZN and fuboTV, which offers a free trial.

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Chris Wallace leaving Fox News, joining CNN+ streaming service

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Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resign from Fox News, protesting ‘irresponsible’ voices like Tucker Carlson

Every month or so, while conversing with sources at Fox News, I express surprise that Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes are still employed by the network. After all, the two men are reality-based conservative thinkers who refuse to capitulate to Donald Trump. Unfortunately, Fox viewers rarely get to hear from them. They are booked by the network’s producers so rarely that their contracts could be likened to golden handcuffs.

Now they are ditching the cuffs.

Hayes and Goldberg announced Sunday night that they have resigned from Fox. The pair wrote in a blog post for The Dispatch, their online home, that Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” propaganda film was the last straw.
“Fox News still does real reporting, and there are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis,” the men wrote. “But the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible,” and Carlson is the case in point.
CNN and other news outlets have described how “Patriot Purge” is disturbing evidence of right-wing radicalization, complete with January 6 denialism and paranoid descriptions of a “new war on terror” targeting Republicans, with references to Guantanamo Bay and images of waterboarding.

“This is not happening. And we think it’s dangerous to pretend it is,” the Goldberg and Hayes wrote. “If a person with such a platform shares such misinformation loud enough and long enough, there are Americans who will believe — and act upon — it.”

Goldberg and Hayes simply could not be a part of it anymore.

New York Times media columnist Ben Smith, who broke the resignation news on Sunday, called up Carlson for reaction, and the trollish host naturally celebrated, saying “our viewers will be grateful” that Goldberg and Hayes are gone. But the conservative movement will suffer for it.
Rep. Liz Cheney, one of the Republican party’s foremost critics of Trump and the Big Lie, tweeted out a thank-you to the two men “for standing up for truth and calling out dangerous lies.”

A rare view inside Fox

Goldberg, in a phone interview with Smith, provided a rare on-the-record peek inside Fox’s political positioning. Per Smith, “Goldberg said that” he and Hayes “stayed on at Fox News as long they did because of a sense from conversations at Fox that, after Mr. Trump’s defeat, the network would try to recover some of its independence and, as he put it, ‘right the ship.'” But Fox’s decision to promote and publish “Patriot Purge” in early November was “a sign that people have made peace with this direction of things, and there is no plan, at least, that anyone made me aware of for a course correction,” Goldberg said.

In Sunday night’s post on The Dispatch, the two commentators said the “Patriot Purge” web series “creates an alternative history of January 6, contradicted not just by common sense, not just by the testimony and on-the-record statements of many participants, but by the reporting of the news division of Fox News itself.”

Hayes and Goldberg praised the “news side” (which keeps shrinking at Fox) but acknowledged that the opinion side has radicalized. “The release of ‘Patriot Purge’ wasn’t an isolated incident,” they wrote, “it was merely the most egregious example of a longstanding trend.” So they’re out. “We do not regret our decision,” they concluded, “even if we find it regrettably necessary.”

Top reactions

— New York Times political reporter Jonathan Martin framed the resignation news as “Fox makes its choice, con’t.” In other words: Fox keeps siding with the populist pro-Trump base over the GOP’s more rational, intellectual voices. Fox is picking its lane.
— Former VP Pence aide turned Trump administration critic Olivia Troye wrote, “Thank you Jonah Goldberg & Stephen Hayes for taking a stand for the truth against an ongoing dangerous enterprise.”
— Conservative writer Bill Kristol sent the two men kudos “for standing up to Fox, yelling Stop, at a time when few other conservatives are inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it…”
— Liberal writer Dan Froomkin’s reaction: “We should ALL quit Fox Noise. And reality-based journalists should work to wean America off it…”
— “Steve and Jonah have been two of the bravest journalists during this whole mess,” David Brooks tweeted. “They’ve taken positions that carry real costs. Think about supporting The Dispatch.”

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Tucker Carlson’s ‘Patriot Purge’ Special Leads Two Fox News Contributors to Quit

For his part, Mr. Goldberg said he has been thinking about William F. Buckley, the late founder of National Review, who saw as part of his mission “imposing seriousness on conservative arguments” and purging some extreme fringe groups, including the John Birch Society, from the right.

“Whether it’s ‘Patriot Purge’ or anti-vax stuff, I don’t want it in my name, and I want to call it out and criticize it,” Mr. Goldberg said. “I don’t want to feel like I am betraying a trust that I had by being a Fox News contributor. And I also don’t want to be accused of not really pulling the punches. And then this was just an untenable tension for me.”

Now, their views have put them outside the current Republican mainstream, or at least outside what mainstream right-wing institutions and politicians are willing to say out loud. But while in recent years both appeared occasionally on the evening show “Special Report” and on “Fox News Sunday,” which the network classifies as news, it’s been years since they were welcome on Fox’s prime time, and Mr. Goldberg clashed bitterly with the prime-time host Sean Hannity in 2016. (Mr. Hayes and Mr. Goldberg emailed their readers Sunday to announce their departure.)

Despite the former contributors’ hopes, Fox’s programming has hewed to Mr. Trump’s line, as have its personnel moves. The network, for instance, fired the veteran political editor who accurately projected Mr. Biden’s victory in the key state of Arizona on election night, and has hired the former Trump White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

Mr. Hayes and Mr. Goldberg are the first members of Fox’s payroll to resign over “Patriot Purge,” but others have signaled their unhappiness. Geraldo Rivera, a Fox News correspondent since 2001, captured the difficulty of internal dissent at the network when he voiced cautious criticism of Mr. Carlson and “Patriot Purge” to my colleague Michael Grynbaum. “I worry that — and I’m probably going to get in trouble for this — but I’m wondering how much is done to provoke, rather than illuminate,” he said.

On air, two programs with smaller audiences than Mr. Carlson’s scrambled after his special to rebut the false theories presented in “Patriot Purge.” “Special Report” called in a former C.I.A. officer on Oct. 29 to debunk “false flag” theories. And on “Fox News Sunday,” Chris Wallace turned the same question over to one of Mr. Trump’s few foes in the Republican congressional delegation, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

Mr. Carlson called Mr. Hayes’s and Mr. Goldberg’s resignations “great news” in a telephone interview on Sunday. “Our viewers will be grateful.”