List of Major League Baseball wild card round broadcasters

The following is a list of the national

Major League Baseball wild card games

throughout the years. It does not include any announcers who may have appeared on local radio broadcasts produced by the participating teams.

Television

2020s

Wild card series

Year	League	Series	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Field reporter (s)
2023	AL	Minnesota Twins/Toronto Blue Jays	ESPN (U.S.)	Michael Kay	Alex Rodriguez	Alden Gonzalez
		Minnesota Twins/Toronto Blue Jays	Sportsnet (Canada)	Dan Shulman	Buck Martinez	Hazel Mae
		Tampa Bay Rays/Texas Rangers	ABC	Sean McDonough	Jessica Mendoza and Tim Kurkjian	Coley Harvey
	NL	Milwaukee Brewers/Arizona Diamondbacks	ESPN2	Jon Sciambi	Doug Glanville	Jesse Rogers
	NL	Philadelphia Phillies/Miami Marlins	ESPN	Karl Ravech	David Cone and Eduardo Pérez	Buster Olney
2022	AL	Cleveland Guardians/Tampa Bay Rays	ESPN (Game 1) ESPN2 (Game 2)	Jon Sciambi	Doug Glanville	Jesse Rogers
		Toronto Blue Jays/Seattle Mariners	ESPN (U.S.)	Dave Flemming	Jessica Mendoza and Tim Kurkjian	Coley Harvey
		Toronto Blue Jays/Seattle Mariners	Sportsnet (Canada)	Buck Martinez	Pat Tabler	Hazel Mae
	NL	St. Louis Cardinals/Philadelphia Phillies	ABC (Game 1) ESPN2 (Game 2)	Michael Kay	Alex Rodriguez	Alden Gonzalez
	NL	New York Mets/San Diego Padres	ESPN	Karl Ravech	David Cone and Eduardo Pérez	Buster Olney

Wild card game

Year	Game	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Field reporter (s)
2021	AL	ESPN	Matt Vasgersian	Alex Rodriguez	Buster Olney
	AL	ESPN2 (Statcast alternate broadcast)^[1]	Jason Benetti	Eduardo Pérez and Mike Petriello
	NL	TBS	Brian Anderson	Ron Darling	Lauren Shehadi

2020 wild card series

League	Series	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Field reporter (s)
AL	Tampa Bay Rays/Toronto Blue Jays	TBS	Rich Waltz	Jimmy Rollins
	Minnesota Twins/Houston Astros	ESPN2 (Game 2)	Karl Ravech	Tim Kurkjian and Eduardo Pérez
	New York Yankees/Cleveland Indians	ESPN	Matt Vasgersian	Alex Rodriguez and Buster Olney	Marly Rivera
	Oakland Athletics/Chicago White Sox		Dave Flemming	Jessica Mendoza
NL	Los Angeles Dodgers/Milwaukee Brewers		Karl Ravech	Tim Kurkjian and Eduardo Pérez
	Atlanta Braves/Cincinnati Reds		Matt Vasgersian	Alex Rodriguez and Buster Olney	Kiley McDaniel
	Chicago Cubs/Miami Marlins	ABC	Jon Sciambi	Chipper Jones	Jesse Rogers
	San Diego Padres/St. Louis Cardinals	ESPN2 (Game 1) ESPN (Game 2 and 3)	Tom Hart	Rick Sutcliffe Jessica Mendoza (Game 3)	Pedro Gomez

Notes

COVID-19 treatment. The conclusion of the game was shifted to ESPN.^[8]

Beginning with the 2022 postseason, MLB allowed Sportsnet, the home network of the Toronto Blue Jays, to produce their own broadcasts of the team's games in Canada rather than a mere simulcast of the American network feed or an MLB International-produced broadcast.^[9]

2010s

Year	Game	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)	Field reporter (s)
2019	AL	ESPN	Matt Vasgersian	Jessica Mendoza and Alex Rodriguez	Buster Olney
	AL	ESPN2 (Statcast alternate broadcast)^[10]	Jason Benetti	Eduardo Pérez and Mike Petriello
	NL	TBS	Ernie Johnson	Ron Darling and Jeff Francoeur	Lauren Shehadi
2018	AL	TBS	Brian Anderson	Ron Darling and Dennis Eckersley	Lauren Shehadi
	NL	ESPN	Matt Vasgersian	Jessica Mendoza and Alex Rodriguez	Buster Olney
	NL	ESPN2 (Statcast alternate broadcast)^[11]	Jason Benetti	Eduardo Pérez and Mike Petriello
2017	AL	ESPN	Dan Shulman	Jessica Mendoza and Aaron Boone	Buster Olney
2017	NL	TBS	Ernie Johnson	Ron Darling	Sam Ryan
2016	AL	TBS	Ernie Johnson	Ron Darling and Cal Ripken	Sam Ryan
2016	NL	ESPN	Dan Shulman	Jessica Mendoza and Aaron Boone	Buster Olney
2015	AL	ESPN	Dan Shulman	John Kruk and Jessica Mendoza	Buster Olney and Tim Kurkjian
2015	NL	TBS	Ernie Johnson	Ron Darling and Cal Ripken	Matt Winer
2014	AL	TBS	Ernie Johnson	Ron Darling and Cal Ripken	Matt Winer
2014	NL	ESPN^[12]	Dan Shulman	John Kruk	Buster Olney and Tim Kurkjian
2013	AL	TBS^[13]	Brian Anderson	Joe Simpson and John Smoltz	Rachel Nichols
2013	NL	TBS^[13]	Ernie Johnson	Ron Darling and Cal Ripken	Craig Sager
2012	AL	TBS	Ernie Johnson	John Smoltz and Cal Ripken	Craig Sager
2012	NL	TBS	Brian Anderson	Joe Simpson and Ron Darling	Tom Verducci

Radio

2020s

Wild card series

Year	League	Series	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)
2023	AL	Minnesota Twins/Toronto Blue Jays	ESPN	Dave O'Brien	Kyle Peterson
	AL	Tampa Bay Rays/Texas Rangers		Mike Monaco	Todd Frazier
	NL	Milwaukee Brewers/Arizona Diamondbacks		Roxy Bernstein	Gregg Olson
	NL	Philadelphia Phillies/Miami Marlins		Mike Couzens	Chris Burke
2022	AL	Cleveland Guardians/Tampa Bay Rays	ESPN	Dave O'Brien	Marly Rivera
	AL	Toronto Blue Jays/Seattle Mariners		Dan Shulman^[9]	Gregg Olson
	NL	St. Louis Cardinals/Philadelphia Phillies		Roxy Bernstein	Kyle Peterson
	NL	New York Mets/San Diego Padres		Kevin Brown	Chris Burke

Wild card game

Year	Game	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator(s)
2021	AL	ESPN	Dave O'Brien	Xavier Scruggs
2021	NL	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	Kyle Peterson

2020 wild card series

League	Series	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator
AL	Tampa Bay Rays/Toronto Blue Jays	ESPN	Dan Shulman	Chris Burke
	Minnesota Twins/Houston Astros		Kevin Brown	Chris Singleton
	New York Yankees/Cleveland Indians		Dave O'Brien	Chris Singleton
	Oakland Athletics/Chicago White Sox		Jon Sciambi	Jim Bowden
NL	Los Angeles Dodgers/Milwaukee Brewers		Dan Shulman	Jim Bowden
	Chicago Cubs/Miami Marlins		Kevin Brown	Jim Bowden
	San Diego Padres/St. Louis Cardinals		Dave O'Brien	Chris Singleton

2010s

Year	Game	Network	Play-by-play	Color commentator
2019	AL	ESPN	Dan Shulman	Chris Singleton
2019	NL	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	Jim Bowden
2018	AL	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	Eduardo Pérez
2018	NL	ESPN	Dan Shulman	Chris Singleton
2017	AL	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	Chris Singleton
2017	NL	ESPN	Adam Amin	Eduardo Pérez
2016	AL	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	Chris Singleton
2016	NL	ESPN	Dave O'Brien	Jim Bowden
2015	AL	ESPN	Dave O'Brien	Aaron Boone
2015	NL	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	Chris Singleton
2014	AL	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	Chris Singleton
2014	NL	ESPN	Dave O'Brien	Aaron Boone
2013	AL	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	Chris Singleton
2013	NL	ESPN	Dan Shulman	Orel Hershiser
2012	AL	ESPN	Dan Shulman	Orel Hershiser
2012	NL	ESPN	Jon Sciambi	Chris Singleton

References

^ Lucia, Joe (October 4, 2021). "Your 2021 MLB Wild Card announcing schedule". Retrieved October 5, 2021.
^ Fisher, Eric (September 28, 2020). "MLB to be seen on ABC for first time since 1995". SportsBusiness.
^ Kalibat, Natalie (September 28, 2020). "Game 1 of Astros-Twins to lead off MLB playoff coverage on ABC". WRIC.
^ Brown, Maury (September 28, 2020). "MLB Postseason Games Returning To ABC For First Time In 25 Years". Forbes.
^ "ESPN and ABC to Exclusively Televise 7 of 8 MLB Wild Card Series". Laughing Place Disney Newsdesk. September 28, 2020.
^ McMillan, Ken (September 27, 2020). "Live from WKEN sports broadcasting blog, Sept. 28". Times Herald-Record.
^ Campbell, Hope (September 28, 2020). "General Hospital Pre-Empted This Week For Major League Baseball". Soap Hub.
^ Bucholtz, Andrew (October 2, 2020). "ABC punted Marlins-Cubs to ESPN in the middle of the ninth for coverage of President Trump being taken to hospital". Awful Announcing.
^ ^a ^b Laskaris, Adam (October 3, 2022). "Buck Martinez to lead Sportsnet's Blue Jays' playoff broadcasts". Daily Hive. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
^ Hughes, Katie (September 26, 2019). "ESPN Provides Exclusive Coverage of the American League Wild Card Game presented by Hankook Tire October 2". ESPN Press Room. Retrieved September 28, 2019.
^ Bucholtz, Andrew (October 3, 2018). "ESPN2's NL Wild Card game Statcast broadcast drew rave reviews, especially compared to ESPN's regular telecast". awfulannouncing.com. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
^ Cafardo, Ben (September 11, 2014). "ESPN to Exclusively Televise MLB NL Wild Card Game Oct. 1". espnmediazone.com.
^ "TBS Announces Commentator Assignments for 2013 MLB Wild Card Games". thefutoncritic.com. September 30, 2013.

External links

[1] Lucia, Joe (October 4, 2021). "Your 2021 MLB Wild Card announcing schedule". Retrieved October 5, 2021.

[2] Fisher, Eric (September 28, 2020). "MLB to be seen on ABC for first time since 1995". SportsBusiness.

[3] Kalibat, Natalie (September 28, 2020). "Game 1 of Astros-Twins to lead off MLB playoff coverage on ABC". WRIC.

[4] Brown, Maury (September 28, 2020). "MLB Postseason Games Returning To ABC For First Time In 25 Years". Forbes.

[5] "ESPN and ABC to Exclusively Televise 7 of 8 MLB Wild Card Series". Laughing Place Disney Newsdesk. September 28, 2020.

[6] McMillan, Ken (September 27, 2020). "Live from WKEN sports broadcasting blog, Sept. 28". Times Herald-Record.

[7] Campbell, Hope (September 28, 2020). "General Hospital Pre-Empted This Week For Major League Baseball". Soap Hub.

[8] Bucholtz, Andrew (October 2, 2020). "ABC punted Marlins-Cubs to ESPN in the middle of the ninth for coverage of President Trump being taken to hospital". Awful Announcing.

[dh-jays-playoffs-broadcasters-9] Laskaris, Adam (October 3, 2022). "Buck Martinez to lead Sportsnet's Blue Jays' playoff broadcasts". Daily Hive. Retrieved October 4, 2022.

[10] Hughes, Katie (September 26, 2019). "ESPN Provides Exclusive Coverage of the American League Wild Card Game presented by Hankook Tire October 2". ESPN Press Room. Retrieved September 28, 2019.

[11] Bucholtz, Andrew (October 3, 2018). "ESPN2's NL Wild Card game Statcast broadcast drew rave reviews, especially compared to ESPN's regular telecast". awfulannouncing.com. Retrieved October 4, 2018.

[12] Cafardo, Ben (September 11, 2014). "ESPN to Exclusively Televise MLB NL Wild Card Game Oct. 1". espnmediazone.com.

[futon-13] "TBS Announces Commentator Assignments for 2013 MLB Wild Card Games". thefutoncritic.com. September 30, 2013.

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