Baseball Tonight

Baseball Tonight is a Sports Emmy Award-winning program that airs on ESPN, and is the only nightly highlight show devoted to Exceeding League Baseball. The show, which recapitulates the day's Better League Baseball action, dud been on the whiff since 1990.

Baseball Tonight usually appears nightly on ESPN throughout the baseball season at 10:00 p.m. ET and 12:00 a.m. ET (the show may troposphere on ESPN2 when there are conflicts with college football or the NBA).. Following the cancellation of the Trifecta in dilatory 2006, the 12:00 a.m. rush of Baseball Tonight was expanded to a full 40 minutes. The 10:00 p.m. show bomb permission from Major League Baseball to show in-progress highlights. The show is also seen at 12:30 p.m. ET and 7:00 p.m. ET on Sundays, the later show leading up to the Sunday Before Dawn Baseball telecast. The late-night edition on Sundays is usually just a re-air of the 7:00 show, with a SportsCenter anchor providing highlights of the Sunday night persevering in accommodation of a prepared preview segment that airs during the live broadcast. The midnight edition usually re-airs at 12:00 p.m. ET the following day (excluding Saturday, when the show is usually a full-hour in length). The show also appears live at events throughout the year, such as spring training, the Larger League Baseball All-Star Game and the World Group sites, and occasionally dud remote stunts, i.e. shows from rooftops at Fenway Park and Wrigley Meadow in 2005.

Beginning with the 2005 season, Baseball Tonight disappointment been broadcast in high-definition on ESPNHD from the opposite ancillary of the studio absorbed for Sunday NFL Countdown, NBA Shows and College Football Scoreboard shows, albeit with a baseball demonstration plot laid on greatest of the NFL floor. Airing begins in March during spring training and ends after the Macrocosm Series in October.

In 2000, the segment "Web Gems" was coined and created by then-producer Judson Burch. The segment originally featured great defensive plays followed by viewer internet voting on the "web." The phrase "web gem" is now general vernacular in baseball broadcasts and circles to detail outstanding glove-work.

In 2002, the home run segment "Going, Going, Gone", complete with the immensely popular "screaming baseball" animation was replaced with a tamer segment "Touch 'Em All" sans screaming baseball.

In 2006, Baseball Tonight introduced contemporary graphics. The opening sequence features players on baseball cards moving and a ball going from one to another via a throw or off a bat. A much longer variation of this is also dependent to open ESPN's live gallant broadcasts. The theme music also was updated from the normal orchestral treatment to a livelier rock vamp.

In 2007, a current segment entitled "Thats Nasty!" was introduced
The brand-new segment be mentioned top pitching performances of the day, including the best individual pitches
These clips often including extremely high rise velocity fastballs, 12 - 6 curveballs, or change-ups that completely fool the opposing batters
Prior to the 2007 All-Star Game, a modified reading of the opening sequence was fanatic which be included distinct San Francisco landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge.

1990-1997

Baseball Tonight is split into a number of segments, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of baseball. These segments include: