The weekend in daily sports follows a similar pattern in each day—start in England, move to New York in early afternoon, end in Anaheim at night, and mix in a good baseball movie. And jumping into the midst of this basic pattern will be the stars coming out in major league baseball.
The New York Yankees are six games out of first place in the AL East, and on the outside looking in the wild-card picture. There’s no need to panic, but there is a need to play with some sense of urgency right now, and that sets up a good series this weekend in the Bronx with the Baltimore Orioles. The Birds swept the Yanks last weekend and the return visit starts tonight on MLB Network at 7 PM ET.
The Fourth of July means baseball, and the MLB Network is set to oblige with a tripleheader of action that mark daily sports on this holiday Thursday.
The summer reruns have started on sports. Tuesday is a day that looks an awful lot like Monday in terms of daily sports choices on TV. Afternoon coverage of Wimbledon goes up to 4 PM ET on ESPN2. Then at night the baseball focus is the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds (7 PM ET, MLB Network).
The rise of the Pittsburgh Pirates has created problems for a lot of teams in the National League, but in writing yesterday’s feature on the Buccos here in TheSportsNotebook, I was thinking that perhaps the two biggest victims were San Francisco and Cincinnati.
A rematch of last year’s AL East race, and subsequent showdown in the Division Series is the focal point of TV daily sports action this weekend. The New York Yankees are in Baltimore to play the Orioles, and with this rivalry at its highest point since the days of 1996-97, the national television crews are heading to Camden Yards.