Your 2026 MLB Wild Card Series announcing schedule
Awful Announcing • • sports
Key Points:
- Major League Baseball announced the TV schedule and announcing crews for the 2026 Wild Card Series, with local analysts and an "Inside the Pitch" analyst featured on NBC broadcasts.
- The Phillies-Braves game will be called by Matt Vasgersian, John Kruk, C.J. Nitkowski, and Joey Votto, while the White Sox-Astros game features Tom McCarthy, Steve Stone, Geoff Blum, and Adam Ottavino.
- Jason Benetti will lead the broadcast for the Red Sox-Yankees series alongside Lou Merloni, Joe Girardi, and Anthony Rizzo, and Dave Flemming will call the Cubs-Padres game with Jim Deshaies, Mark Grant, and Clayton Kershaw.
- ESPN Radio will provide nationwide postseason coverage with announcer teams including Dave O’Brien and Jessica Mendoza for Phillies-Braves, Roxy Bernstein and Gregg Olson for White Sox-Astros, and Michael Kay, Eduardo Perez, and Tim Kurkjian for Red Sox-Yankees.
