The 2020 baseball season, if it ends, will become The Year of the Pandemic. The year of the Sprint. The year of the impending battle over finance. The year of the ace? Hard to see it. Except for a timeless reality: Whatever the pitcher of the team that pitches as …
Read More »MLB Returns: Joe Buck Explains How He’ll Call Games For Fox
one. Four months later, opening day is finally here. The Yankees face the Nationals at 7 p.m. ET. The Giants and Dodgers will play at 10 pm ET. Joe Buck will call the Yankees-Nationals game this Saturday night for Fox with teammate John Smotlz. Buck appeared in this week’s Sports …
Read More »Fox to use virtual fans for 2020 MLB broadcasts
Fox will use virtual fans for his MLB game streams starting Saturday. The use of augmented reality is designed to make viewers feel that broadcasts are as normal as possible, despite the ongoing pandemic that has left the stadiums empty. “The original concept sounds like something that would never happen: …
Read More »The Power of Pinstripes: How Gerrit Cole Became a Yankee
7:00 am ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Near Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. NEW YORK – A week before Christmas last year, the New York Yankees held a press conference at the posh Legends Club at Yankee Stadium to introduce him to Gerrit Cole after signing a …
Read More »Masks, empty parks, social justice.
Opening day, finally. A baseball season that was on the brink before it started due to the virus outbreak will begin Thursday night when Max Scherzer and World Series champion Washington Nationals welcome prized ace Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees. York. When it starts, the DC forecast calls …
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