FOX Saturday Game of the Week returns today. MLB Network launches Saturday Night Games

April 11, 12:28 PMSports Media ExaminerJim Williams

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  The FOX Saturday Game of the week is back today.

FOX welcomes back baseball today and for the second straight year the network will carry their outstanding FOX Saturday Game of the Week all the way through the All Star Game, the playoffs and till a champion is crowned at the World Series.

All the action will start at 4p.m. Eastern time most weeks and the games will be broken down into regional coverage.

The network has the always entertaining Chris Rose in his new role as the Pregame and Postgame host for FOX. He will also serve as an in game reporter today in LA.

Most of the country will get the Red Sox on the road against the Angels with Kenny Albert, Eric Karros and Ken Rosenthal handling the broadcast.

The networks main broadcast team of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver will be in St. Louis where the Cards and the Astros will face each other in a National League Central battle.

Thom Brennaman and Mark Grace will handle the White Sox and the Twins broadcast from Chicago.

By the way you can follow the FOX broadcast teams on Twitter so be sure to check it out. It is a very cool feature during the broadcasts.

MLB Network is doing Saturday Night baseball starting tonight…

At 8p.m. tonight it will be the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks live from Phoenix.

In a statement issued by the network “Adding these Saturday night games will allow us to further our commitment to showcase all 30 Major League clubs at the national level,” said Tony Petitti, President and Chief Executive Officer of MLB Network. “Having two national games each week will also help us augment our already robust MLB Tonight studio programming.”

The Saturday Night Game of the Week on MLB Network will increase the networks live game coverage to 52 broadcasts when you add in their Thursday Night Game of the Week broadcasts.

Monday’s Washington Nationals – Philadelphia Phillies game will be seen national at 3p.m. on the MLB Network. Locally it will be seen on MASN and MASN-HD.