Sunday Night Baseball [SEP] original network
Sunday Night Baseball
Sunday Night Baseball is an exclusive weekly telecast of a Major League Baseball game that airs Sunday nights at 7:00 p.m. EDT on ESPN during the regular season (the official name is "ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball Presented by Taco Bell").
The games are preceded most weeks by the studio show "Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown presented by Chevrolet" prior to the first pitch. A few telecasts each season appear on ESPN2 rather than ESPN due to conflicts with other programming.
History.
Detroit Tigers' American League East pennant chase against the Toronto Blue Jays. However, in 1986, ABC did do a number of early season Sunday afternoon games before they went into "Monday Night Baseball".
History 1980s 1980-1982.
ABC's contract was further modified prior to the season, with the network airing just five "Monday Night Baseball" telecasts in June of that year, followed by "Sunday Afternoon Baseball" in August and September. ABC did Sunday afternoon games late in the season in order to fulfill