''MLB Tuesday'' is an American television presentation of

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(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. Prior to 2022,

ESPN ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...

, FX and FS1 occasionally aired games on Tuesday nights.

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continues to air games on Tuesday nights either opposite TBS's doubleheader or when TBS does not schedule a game on select Tuesday nights.

History

ESPN (1990–1993)

On January 5, 1989,

signed a $400 million deal with

, who would show over 175 games beginning in 1990. For the next four years, ESPN would televise six games a week ('' Sunday Night Baseball'', '' Wednesday Night Baseball'' and doubleheaders on Tuesdays and Fridays), as well as multiple games on

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, and

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. 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.

Fox Sports

FX (1997–1998)

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, FX obtained the partial pay-television 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 (2014–2021)

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.

''MLB Tuesday'' on TBS (2022–present)

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. On September 24, 2020, it was announced that

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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 (The Sunday afternoon games was instead sold as a separate package now known as MLB Sunday Leadoff). The program includes a 30-minute studio show before and after each game. During the final month of the 2024 Major League Baseball season, TBS' sister network

TruTV TruTV (stylized as truTV) is an American basic cable Television channel, channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel primarily broadcasts reruns of Television comedy, comedy, Reality television, docusoaps and reality shows, with a rec ...

aired ''MLB Race to the Pennant'' on Tuesday nights. The show will featured a whip-around format hosted by Alanna Rizzo and Yonder Alonso. TNT Sports also added additional games in order to air ''MLB Tuesday'' doubleheaders the final three weeks of the season. One of the doubleheaders featured one game instead on TruTV, marking the first time the network has exclusively aired a regular season MLB game in full. TruTV began simulcasting select ''MLB Tuesday'' games with TBS beginning with the 2025 season.

''MLB En Vivo'' on UniMás and TUDN (2024–present)

On August 15, 2024, Major League Baseball announced a multi-year agreement with

TelevisaUnivision TelevisaUnivision (formerly known as Univision Communications) is a Mexican-American media company headquartered in Miami and Mexico City that owns American Spanish language broadcast network Univision and free-to-air channels in Mexico such as ...

UniMás UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. ...

and

TUDN TUDN (pronounced tu-de-ene; formerly called Univision Deportes Network) is a Mexican Spanish language sports channel. Owned by TelevisaUnivision, it is an extension of the company's sports division of the same name, with TUDN the acronym of Tel ...

will air a weekly whip-around show, ''MLB En Vivo'', in Spanish on Tuesday nights. Univision talent includes Antonio de Valdés and Enrique Burak as hosts, Daniel Nohra and Luis Quiñones as play-by-play commentators and Luis Alberto Martínez and Daniel Schvarztman as reporters and guest analysts.

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