2013 MLB TV Primer Part 4: MLB on TBS

This week I will be running posts previewing MLB's TV coverage for the 2013 season. This will be the final season of the current contract, so starting next season there will be significant changes to how you view baseball nationally.  

Today we will look at TBS's MLB coverage for 2013:

Turner Sports will air 26 Sunday afternoon games on TBS throughout the season with all games subject to local blackouts.  MLB on TBS's coverage will once again remain primarily in the east as evident to the release of the schedule for the first two months.  TBS will announce the All-Star Game starters on MLB on Deck studio show before its game telecast on Sunday, June 30.  After the NBA Playoffs concludes, Ernie Johnson will once again be used as the lead play by play man for select games throughout the season with former big league starters John Smoltz and Ron Darling as co-analysts.  The trio will be part of TBS's playoff coverage and will be the lead commentators for the National League Championship Series.  This postseason's coverage will also include both Wild Card tie-breaker games on separate dates, the majority of the four Divisional Series games (minus two games licensed to MLB Network) and all of the NLCS.

This will be the final season of weekly TBS coverage. Starting in 2014 they will reduce their schedule in half, will lose one of the tie-breaker games, half of the divisional series and the All-Star game selection show.

[Edited on June 16 to reflect changes made by TBS for the 2013 post season.]

Announcers: Ernie Johnson, Cal Ripken and Ron Darling, Brian Anderson, Dick Stockton, Dennis Eckersley, John Smoltz, Matt Devlin, Steve Physioc, Keith Olbermann (postseason studio only)

Post Season: 
NLCS/Divisional Wild Card: Johnson, Ripken, Darling, Craig Sager (reporter)
Divisional Games/Wild Card: Anderson, Smoltz

Sunday MLB on TBS (Remainder of Schedule to be announced)

April 7: New York Yankees at Detroit Tigers, 1:00 PM

April 14: Tampa Bay Rays at Boston Red Sox, 1:30 PM

April 21: Los Angeles Dodgers at Baltimore Orioles, 1:30 PM

April 28: Toronto Blue Jays at New York Yankees, 1:00 PM

May 5: New York Mets at Atlanta Braves, 1:30 PM

May 12: Toronto Blue Jays at Boston Red Sox, 1:30 PM

May 19: Los Angeles Dodgers at Atlanta Braves, 1:30 PM

May 26: New York Yankees at Tampa Bay Rays, 1:30 PM

For updates of upcoming games go to the MLB on TBS home page. 

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