ESPN's coverage of America's national pastime includes everything from the grassroots to the highest pro ranks. If it’s being played, ESPN has it covered.
As the world's premier professional baseball competition, ESPN follows the action from all thirty teams from both the MLB's American and National leagues. With a regular season running from the beginning of April to the end of September, games are broadcast live or on short-turnaround, Mondays through to Thursdays as well as on Saturdays, with many games repeated the same day in prime time.
Held each year in late August in Pennsylvania at the Howard J Lamade Stadium and Little League Volunteer Stadium, 16 teams participate in the Little League Baseball World Series. To get to there, teams will have had to win their way through as part of around 45,000 games already played across eight divisions, leading up to the various World Series tournaments. ESPN holds the exclusive rights to the entire tournament in August, also broadcast on Foxtel’s 3D Channel 201.
This annual College baseball tournament is held in Omaha in June. It's the culmination of the NCAA Division 1 Baseball Championship and determines the NCAA Division 1 college baseball champions. The eight competing teams are split into two, four-team, double-elimination brackets.