This is great! Howie Rose did a good rant about it last night.
A weekend day game would still be nice but I’ll take what I can get. WS games (and ALCS) will start right before 8pm, with a 7:30 pregame. That probably means a 7:58 first pitch but that’s better than 8:43.
“Our goal is to schedule games so the largest number of people can watch, and Fox has gone to an enormous amount of effort to make this happen. It’s been a great joint effort between the two of us,” MLB commissioner Bud Selig said, according to MLB.com.