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- Chicago Cubs to Host Milwaukee Brewers at 1 p.m. ET, Los Angeles Dodgers to Host Colorado Rockies at 4 p.m.
- Part of Significant Day of Live Sports on ESPN Leading Into Monday Night Football
- National League Wild Card Game Exclusively on ESPN this Tuesday at 8 p.m.
ESPN will exclusively televise both Major League Baseball National League tiebreaker games on Monday, Oct. 1. It marks the first time two tiebreaker games have been necessary. At 1 p.m. ET, the Chicago Cubs will host the Milwaukee Brewers to determine the National League Central division winner. At 4 p.m., the Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Colorado Rockies to determine the National League West division winner. The teams that do not win their respective divisions will meet the following day in the National League Wild Card Game on ESPN.
Karl Ravech, analysts Eduardo Perez and Tim Kurkjian and reporter Buster Olney will call the Brewers at Cubs telecast, while Jon “Boog” Sciambi and analysts David Ross and Rick Sutcliffe will call the Rockies at Dodgers telecast. Both games will also be available on the ESPN App.
ESPN will exclusively televise the 2018 MLB National League Wild Card Game presented by Hankook Tire on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 8 p.m. The game will also be available on ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Deportes Radio and the ESPN App. In addition, ESPN will offer its first alternative viewing experience for a MLB Wild Card Game – a Statcast-driven telecast on ESPN2.
The Sunday Night Baseball team of Matt Vasgersian, analysts Jessica Mendoza and Alex Rodriguez and reporter Buster Olney will call the National League Wild Card Game on ESPN, while Jason Benetti, Eduardo Perez and MLB.com Statcast writer Mike Petriello will call the Statcast-driven alternative viewing experience on ESPN2. Dan Shulman and analyst Chris Singleton will describe the action for ESPN Radio. More about ESPN’s Wild Card coverage: ESPN Media Zone.
As a result of the tiebreaker games, here is ESPN’s afternoon and evening programming schedule across platforms for Monday, Oct. 1:
ESPN:
| Time (ET) | Telecast |
| 12 p.m. | SportsCenter |
| 1 p.m. | Tiebreaker game: Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs |
| 4 p.m. | Tiebreaker game:
Colorado Rockies at Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 7 p.m. | NFL Countdown |
| 8 p.m. | Monday Night Football: Kansas City Chiefs at Denver Broncos |
ESPN2:
| Time (ET) | Telecast |
| 12 p.m. | First Take |
| 1:30 p.m. | NFL Prime Time |
| 2:30 p.m. | NFL Live |
| 4 p.m. | High Noon |
| 4:30 p.m. | Highly Questionable |
| 5 p.m. | Around The Horn |
| 5:30 p.m. | Pardon the Interruption |
| 6 p.m. | NFL Countdown |
*The 6 p.m. edition of SportsCenter will air on ESPNEWS.
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