There are no Sunday World Series games scheduled for the first time in recent memory.
The 2022 World Series is scheduled to begin Friday, October 28 and run as late as Saturday, November 5, with no games scheduled for a Sunday, according to the official schedule released by Major League Baseball on Monday. This year will mark the first time since 1990 that no World Series game has taken place on a Sunday. That year, the Fall Classic began on a Tuesday and ended in a four-game sweep, avoiding what would have been a Sunday Game 5.
The October 28 start and potential November 5 finish are the latest in World Series history. The addition of a new round of playoffs, combined with the season ending later than scheduled due to the owner-imposed offseason lockout, are the primary contributors. Notably, the aforementioned 1990 season was also delayed by a lockout.
While the World Series will avoid going head-to-head with Sunday Night Football, the new schedule includes a Halloween head-to-head with Monday Night Football. ESPN has Bengals-Browns that night, presumably far less onerous competition than NBC’s Packers-Bills would have been the night before.
The new best-of-three Wild Card series are scheduled to run from Friday, October 7 through Sunday, October 9, with all 12 potential games airing on ESPN. The Division Series is scheduled to begin the following Tuesday and the League Championship Series a week after that. The Division Series and LCS are set to begin on the opening nights of the NHL and NBA, respectively.
FOX is scheduled to carry a Division Series game on Wednesday, October 12 in what would be its first LDS broadcast since 2006.
(News from MLB.com 8.15)
