As FOX Sports begins the fourth season of a seven-year media rights deal with Major League Baseball, the entity will have an array of compelling matchups and rivalries on its airwaves throughout the regular season. The 2025 campaign marks the 30th season under which FOX Sports will be providing national broadcast coverage of the league, and it will commence with games from Tokyo, Japan between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. The first of these matchups will take place on Tuesday, March 18 at 6 a.m. EST airing live on FOX and FOX Deportes. At the same time the next morning, the second matchup of the series will air live on FS1 and FOX Deportes.
Traditional coverage of MLB Opening Weekend follows with a day-night doubleheader on Saturday, March 29, beginning with an interleague showdown between the Minnesota Twins and St. Louis Cardinals at 2 p.m. EST on FS1. Prime time regionalized matchups will be presented at 7 p.m. EST with teams such as the Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, San Diego Padres and Houston Astros involved in the proceedings. Out of all the teams on the FOX Sports game schedule, the Dodgers and Cubs are slated to appear the most with 10 matchups airing on FOX platforms throughout the regular season.
The Baseball Night in America franchise will return starting on Saturday, May 3 and will feature various showdowns throughout the year. Citi Field will play host to a rematch of the 2024 NLCS between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday, May 24. One week later, the Dodgers return home to face the New York Yankees in a rematch of the 2024 World Series, which averaged 15.8 million viewers across FOX platforms last year, indicative of a 67% year-over-year increase. The company will present the World Series at the conclusion of the season for the 26th time in its history.
FOX Sports will air three presentations of the Yankees’ rivalry with the Boston Red Sox, taking place on June 7, June 14 and August 21, along with the Lone Star showdown between the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros on July 12. The historic National League Central duel between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals arrives on the airwaves on August 9, emanating from Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Mo.
FOX Sports will be airing the MLB Speedway Classic live from Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee on Saturday, Aug. 2. The Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds will play an interdivisional matchup in this setting that will combine the aura of the NASCAR venue with the tradition of baseball. A few weeks earlier, FOX Sports will present the 2025 MLB All-Star Game from Truist Park in Atlanta, Ga., which proceeds a season where the network registered a 6% increase in audience for the game with an average of 7.4 million viewers.
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