title: Baseball Night in America
text: Baseball Night in America is an American television presentation of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by Fox Sports for the Fox network on Saturday or Thursday nights.
  
  Fox's coverage includes 20 weeks worth of coverage as of 2023, with 16 Saturday windows and 4 Thursday windows. Coverage usually includes 2 to 4 separate games all starting at 7PM ET, with local affiliates airing the game of most interest to their audience.
  
  History
  While Fox has aired Fox Saturday Baseball games since 1996, Fox only began using the Baseball Night in America branding in 2012. In the inaugural season, the Baseball Night in America branding was used for games from May 26 to July 7.
  
  Until 2021, Baseball Night in America aired every Saturday from the last week in May to the second week in July. Beginning with the 2019 season, late season Fox Saturday Baseball games moved from the afternoon to prime time. therefore  a separate section of games was added for September. Some of these September games aired on Thursday night as Thursday Night Baseball.
  
  Because of the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the 2020 season, Fox Saturday Baseball returned to airing some afternoon Saturday games on July 25, August 29 and September 5. Fox aired Saturday primetime games between July 25 and August 1, and between September 12 and September 26, as well as on August 15. Fox returned to their 2019 scheduling for the 2021 season.
  
  For the 2022 season, Fox aired Baseball Night in America games every Saturday from May 28 to September 10, as well as on Saturday, October 1. Games aired on Thursday nights on September 15 and September 22. This is the result of Fox increasing the amount of games they air on broadcast television in their new television contract, as well as a side effect of the loss of Fox's Thursday night NFL games outside of local syndication.
  
  For the 2023 season, Fox will air Baseball Night in America games every Saturday from May 6 to July 29, as well as on August 12, August 26, September 2 and September 30. Games will air on Thursday nights on August 3, August 17, September 14 and September 21. For the first time since 2020, Fox also aired afternoon Fox Saturday Baseball games on April 1, April 22, April 29 and June 24.
  
  On air staff
  
  Play-by-play commentators
   Joe Davis (Lead)
   Adam Amin
   Jason Benetti
   Kevin Kugler
   Don Orsillo
   Len Kasper
   Kenny Albert
   Alex Faust
   Jeff Levering
   Aaron Goldsmith
  
  Color commentators
   John Smoltz (Lead)
   Eric Karros
   A. J. Pierzynski
   Tom Verducci
   Mark Sweeney
   Dontrelle Willis
  
  Field reporters
   Ken Rosenthal
   Tom Verducci
  
  Studio
   Kevin Burkhardt (Host)
   Chris Myers (Host)
   Mike Hill (Host)
   Jenny Taft (Host)
   Eric Karros (Analyst)
   Mark Sweeney (Analyst)
   Dontrelle Willis (Analyst)
  
  See also
   Major League Baseball on Fox
   Major League Baseball on FS1
   Thursday Night Baseball
  
  References
  
  External links
   
  
   
  2012 American television series debuts
  2010s American television series
  2020s American television series
  Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
  Fox Sports original programming
  Sports telecast series
  Major League Baseball on television