ESPN’s Coverage of Major League Baseball Opening Week 2012

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ESPN will provide multi-platform coverage of Major League Baseball during its opening week. ESPN will have the 2012 opener between the St. Lous Cardinals and the Miami Marlins Wednesday night at 7:00p.m. ET with Dan Shulman, Orel Hershiser, Terry Francona and Buster Olney on the call.

Baseball Tonight will originate from Miami on Wednesday beginning at 6:00p.m. ET as a lead in to the opener. Host Karl Ravech will be joined by analysts John Kruk and Barry Larkin. The trio will then head to Los Angeles for Albert Pujols’ debut with the Los Angeles Angels as they host the Kansas City Royals on Friday, April 6, at 10:00 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

Mike & Mike will take their radio show to the MLB Man Cave in New York City on Wednesday and Thursday morning. The radio program is simulcast on ESPN2

ESPN will feature daylong MLB season-opening discussion, debate and content on April 4, including liveSportsCenter updates from Marlins Park; First Take (10 a.m./ESPN2); Numbers Never Lie (4 p.m./ESPN2); andSportsNation (5 p.m./ESPN2). ESPN will also televise a special edition of Dan Le Batard is Highly Questionable on location at Marlins Park (4:30 p.m./ESPN2). In addition, ESPN will be airing Game 162 - an MLB-produced special on the final day of 2011’s regular season – on Monday, April 2, at 8 p.m. and again on April 4, at 2 p.m. on ESPN2.

ESPN.com will also be providing extensive coverage of the opening of the season which will include a new look Baseball Tonight page.

Here is the schedule of ESPN Major League Baseball games for the first week of the season:
Date Time (ET) Game Commentators Networks
Wed., April 4 7 p.m. St. Louis Cardinals at Miami Marlins * Dan Shulman,

Orel Hershiser,

Terry Francona, Buster Olney
ESPN, ESPN3, ESPN Mobile TV, WatchESPN
Thurs., April 5 1 p.m. Boston Red Sox at Detroit Tigers Shulman, Hershiser, Francona, Olney ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPN Mobile TV, WatchESPN
4 p.m. Miami Marlins at Cincinnati Reds Sean McDonough, Aaron Boone,

Rick Sutcliffe,

Tim Kurkjian
ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPN Mobile TV, WatchESPN
Fri., April 6 7 p.m. San Francisco Giants at Arizona Diamondbacks * Dave O’Brien, Nomar Garciaparra, Mark Mulder, Pedro Gomez ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPN Mobile TV, WatchESPN
10 p.m. Kansas City Royals at Los Angeles Angels * Shulman, Hershiser, Francona, Olney ESPN2, ESPN3, ESPN Mobile TV, WatchESPN