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ESPN Reveals Opening Night Matchup For 2024 Season on Monday

ESPN is set to kick off the baseball season with a matchup between the Texas Rangers and Chicago Cubs on March 28th.
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ESPN Reveals Opening Night Matchup For 2024 Season on Monday
ESPN Reveals Opening Night Matchup For 2024 Season on Monday

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The world champion Texas Rangers are set to usher in the 2024 Major League Baseball season on ESPN in a battle with the Chicago Cubs.

The announcement was made on "X" by Karl Ravech and Eduardo Perez, who are part of ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball Coverage."

The game will be played on Thursday, March 28 at Globe Life Field in Arlington. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Per a portion of the ESPN press release:

It marks the start of ESPN’s 35th season of Major League Baseball coverage.

The ESPN Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team – Karl Ravech, analysts David Cone and Eduardo Pérez and reporter Buster Olney – will start their third season together by calling the Cubs vs. Rangers game.

Baseball Tonight on ESPN will capture all of the World Series Championship pregame celebration in its one-hour show, starting at 6:30 p.m.

SportsCenter will bookend MLB Opening Night on ESPN with a show at 6 p.m. and at the conclusion of the game. ESPN programming is also available on the ESPN App.

It should be an intriguing matchup for a number of different reasons.

First, the Rangers are coming off their first-ever World Series championship. The electricity in the building should be incredible and the pregame championship celebration should be worth tuning in for.

Also, the Cubs are always an interesting draw. They could be very active in free agency and could end up looking a lot different in 2024. Furthermore, they have a new manager, hiring Craig Counsell away from the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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