Post-season baseball begins Tuesday, for eight of the 12 teams that made it to the 2024 Major League Baseball playoffs. Phillies fans wait for Saturday for the action to start. That’s because the Phillies finished with the second-best record in the National League and earned a bye for the Wild Card round.
They will compete in the NL Divisional series beginning Saturday and, I hope, in the subsequent NL Championship series and the World Series. Neither the time nor opponent of Saturday’s game is known. We know the venue is Citizens Bank Park because the Phillies glommed home field advantage against all comers but the Los Angeles Dodgers, the only team with a better record.
We also know the television stations that will carry the NLDS and any further rounds in which the Phillies might play. For the National League, that station will be either Fox (Channel 29) or FS1. The World Series will also be on Fox.
Here’s a breakdown of the entire playoff season as regards television. Tomorrow’s games, the first in a best-of-three Wild Card series, will be seen on either ABC (Channel 6) or ESPN. Those stations will carry all games in this round whether they involve the American or National League.
Most will be on ESPN platforms. Final team records were not yet decided Sunday afternoon and neither were all of the teams that are making it. The NL’s third seed, the Milwaukee Brewers, definitely play Tuesday, but they don’t yet know their opponent.
Nor does the fourth seed, the Sa.