August\u2019s schedule is highlighted by several marquee matchups, including the latest chapter in two of baseball\u2019s most iconic rivalries. On August 14, breakout star Jordan Walker and the St. Louis Cardinals take on three-time All-Star Alex Bregman and the Chicago Cubs for a matinee battle. Then, on August 28, the New York Yankees will host the Boston Red Sox for the newest installment of one of baseball\u2019s greatest rivalries.\n<\/p>\n
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the defending American League Champion Toronto Blue Jays will also relive their historic 2025 postseason run on \u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d with a Division Series rematch against the Yankees on August 14 and a Championship Series rematch against Julio Rodr\u00edguez and the Seattle Mariners on August 28.\n<\/p>\n
The month also features multiple appearances by some of baseball\u2019s top contenders, including the American League West-leading Seattle Mariners and American League East-leading Tampa Bay Rays, who will each appear twice on \u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d during August.\n<\/p>\n
For the fifth straight season, \u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d games will be called by broadcast teams Wayne Randazzo (play-by-play), Dontrelle Willis (analyst), and Heidi Watney (sideline reporter); and Alex Faust (play-by-play), Ryan Spilborghs (analyst), and Tricia Whitaker (sideline reporter) with Rich Waltz, who will join the broadcast team to call select games during the season. Game-by-game announcer assignments will be revealed weekly. The \u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d pregame shows will be hosted by Lauren Gardner, former MLB All-Star player Eric Hosmer, and insider Russell Dorsey.\n<\/p>\n
Fans in the U.S. and Canada will also have the option to listen to home and away local radio broadcasts during \u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d games.1\n<\/p>\n
\u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d is produced by MLB Network\u2019s Emmy Award-winning production team in partnership with Apple\u2019s live sports production team, with the first game of each weekly doubleheader presented by Essilor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August\u2019s schedule is highlighted by several marquee matchups, including the latest chapter in two of baseball\u2019s most iconic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-803194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}