Doubleheaders

After all, doubleheaders have been deposited into the dustbin of baseball’s history.

It gets a full season package split between TNT and HBO Max (which will be called just Max by then), but limited to just Tuesday doubleheaders.

Orlovsky has been on the call for a couple of Monday Night Football doubleheaders this season already, but it was interesting to see a seamless crossover from the Worldwide Leader to a league-sponsored network.

The playoff schedule will be impacted by the action, which includes an ESPN doubleheader on Saturday afternoon and a pair of doubleheaders on Sunday leading into a potentially winner-take-all Game 272 between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions.

Baseball teams nowadays rarely even have doubleheaders unless absolutely necessary and usually rest starting pitchers for several days after a start, showing just how ridiculous it is that Powell could pull this off in the span of a few hours.

Almost all were made up later, in abbreviated doubleheaders with each game lasting seven innings instead of the usual nine.

I kind of liked the idea with the doubleheaders of playing seven,” he said.

Milwaukee will host doubleheaders Sept. 18 and 20 and will serve as the home team in the opener of a twinbill in St. Louis on Sept. 25.

One of those doubleheaders will be in Anaheim, where the temperature is expected to top about 109 degrees Saturday.

Schools with boys and girls hosting will play doubleheaders.

Since broadcast baseball has largely gone the way of Sunday doubleheaders, there are few options for watching any game without a subscription of one kind or another.

A game consists of nine innings (seven innings at the high school level and in doubleheaders in college and minor leagues).

Because of rainouts, the Tigers were forced to play back-to-back doubleheaders against the California Angels over the final two days of the season.

Several same-day multi-city doubleheaders were to be played.