MLB Tuesday is an American television presentation of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by TNT Sports primarily for TBS. The show debuted on April 12, 2022 and features a 30-minute studio show before and after each game.
ESPN, FX and FS1 occasionally aired games on Tuesday nights prior to 2022 those games were known as Tuesday Night baseball at the time. MLB Network currently airs games on Tuesday nights in place of TBS when it is not airing any games that week (when TBS decides to air a doubleheader on another week), immediately before the beginning or after the conclusion of games on TBS and no games at all when TBS airs games in both windows.
Since the end of that contract ESPN has not officially aired a full slate of Tuesday night games but has consistently aired several games per year since 1997. With Turner Sports gaining the exclusive rights to MLB games on Tuesday nights, Tuesday night ESPN games were discontinued.
In 1997, FX obtained the partial pay-TV rights to MLB games; while most game telecasts aired on Monday nights or Saturday nights, 11 games in 1997 and 1 game in 1998 aired on Tuesdays.
FS1 occasionally aired baseball on Tuesday nights between 2014 and 2021 as part of their irregularly scheduled non-exclusive broadcast package. With the TBS television package having moved to Tuesday nights in 2021, FS1's schedule no longer includes Tuesday night games.
Prior to 2022, during the regular season, TBS broadcast a weekly game nationally on Sunday afternoons, under the title Sunday MLB on TBS. These games were not exclusive to TBS and were blacked out in local markets, to protect the stations that hold the local broadcast rights to the games. In the affected areas, simulcasts of programming from sister network HLN aired in place of the games.[1]
On September 24, 2020, it was announced that Turner Sports had renewed its baseball rights through 2028 (aligned with the conclusion of Fox's most recent extension). However instead of a package of Sunday afternoon games the contract includes primetime games on Tuesday nights throughout the regular season.[2][3][4]
The program includes a 30-minute studio show before and after each game.[5]
During the final month of the 2024 Major League Baseball season, TBS' sister network TruTV will air MLB Race to the Pennant on Tuesday nights. The show will feature a whip-around format hosted by Alanna Rizzo and Yonder Alonso. MLB Tuesday will also air doubleheaders the final three weeks of the season. One of the doubleheaders will feature one game instead on TruTV, marking the first time the network has aired a regular season MLB game in full.[6]
