Major League Baseball releases postseason schedule

Major League Baseball launched its 2022 postseason schedule Monday, and the World Series will begin on Friday, Oct. 28 on FOX Sports.

It’s the primary time since 1915 that the World Series would begin on a Friday. The postseason might finish on Nov. 5 — its newest ever — due to the lockout that delayed opening day.

Major League Baseball mentioned Monday its expanded postseason will start with all 4 video games within the new wild-card sequence on Oct. 7. The different video games are Oct. 8 and 9, if needed.

The new format has 12 groups making the playoffs, up from the ten in place from 2012-21, besides the 16 used within the 2020 playoffs that adopted a regular-season shortened to 60 video games due to the coronavirus pandemic. The prime two groups in every league get first-round byes, whereas the No. 3 seed faces No. 6 and No. 4 performs No. 5. The greater seed will probably be residence in every best-of-three sequence.

In the best-of-five Division Series, the highest seed performs the 3-vs.-6 winner and the No. 2 seed performs the 4-vs.-5 winner. The Division Series may have the acquainted format of the upper seed residence for Games 1 and a pair of, and, if needed, Game 5. 

FOX Sports’ protection will start with the NLDS, which begins Oct. 11. All video games will probably be broadcast on FOX Sports or FS1. 

The ALDS begins the identical day, with all video games televised on TBS.

The National League Championship Series is scheduled to start Oct. 18 on FOX Sports or FS1. The American League Championship Series begins Oct. 19 on TBS.

Opening day was delayed from March 31 to April 7 due to the 99-day lockout that ended on March 10, and the common season was prolonged by three days to Oct. 5.

The World Series begins Oct. 28, matching its newest begin, in 2009.

It will probably be its first Friday begin since Oct. 8, 1915, on the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia, when the Phillies beat the Red Sox 3-1 earlier than shedding the subsequent 4 video games.

Since the beginning of playoffs, the Series had been scheduled to start out on a Tuesday since 2014, in 1990 and from 1977-84, a Wednesday from 2007-13 and a Saturday from 1969-76, 1985-89 and 1991-2006.

The Series went into November for the primary time in 2001, when the 9/11 terrorist assaults precipitated the common season to finish per week later than initially scheduled. The newest a Series recreation has been performed is Nov. 4, in 2001 and once more in 2009. Last yr’s Series ended on Nov. 2 when the Atlanta Braves beat the Houston Astros in Game 6 for his or her first title since 1995.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.