The first slate of national television broadcasts has been announced with 15 St. Louis Cardinals contests included.
ESPN and the FOX network have announced a partial state of Major League Baseball games to be televised nationally during the 2011 season. 15 of them involve the St. Louis Cardinals, starting with Opening Day and game two, on Thursday, March 31 and Saturday, April 2, respectively.
12 of the 15 will originate from Busch Stadium. A total of five are in March/April, three in May, one in June, followed by two each in July, August and September. Cincinnati leads the way with four games, followed by the Cubs with three and the Padres and Rockies with two each. Single contests with the Mets, Braves, Phillies and Giants are also on the schedule.
| Date | Time ET | Away | Home | Network |
| Thu, Mar 31 | 4:15 PM | San Diego Padres | St. Louis Cardinals | ESPN |
| Sat, Apr 2 | 4:10 PM | San Diego Padres | St. Louis Cardinals | FOX |
| Sat, Apr 23 | 4:10 PM | Cincinnati Reds | St. Louis Cardinals | FOX |
| Sun, Apr 24 | 8:00 PM | Cincinnati Reds | St. Louis Cardinals | ESPN |
| Sat, Apr 30 | 1:10 PM | St. Louis Cardinals | Atlanta Braves | FOX |
| Mon, May 16 | 8:15 PM | Philadelphia Phillies | St. Louis Cardinals | ESPN |
| Sat, May 28 | 7:10 PM | St. Louis Cardinals | Colorado Rockies | FOX |
| Tue, May 31 | 8:15 PM | San Francisco Giants | St. Louis Cardinals | ESPN |
| Sat, Jun 4 | 4:10 PM | Chicago Cubs | St. Louis Cardinals | FOX |
| Tue, Jul 5 | 8:15 PM | Cincinnati Reds | St. Louis Cardinals | ESPN |
| Sat, Jul 30 | 4:10 PM | Chicago Cubs | St. Louis Cardinals | FOX |
| Sat, Aug 13 | 4:10 PM | Colorado Rockies | St. Louis Cardinals | FOX |
| Sat, Aug 20 | 4:10 PM | St. Louis Cardinals | Chicago Cubs | FOX |
| Sat, Sep 3 | 4:10 PM | Cincinnati Reds | St. Louis Cardinals | FOX |
| Wed, Sep 21 | 8:15 PM | New York Mets | St. Louis Cardinals | ESPN |
Here is the link to the webpage where new updates should be added when available.
Of course, more games will be added later on these networks as well as by TBS and MLB Network and the remainder of the Cardinals’ 162-game schedule will be televised by FOX Sports Midwest in 2011.
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I wonder if it is just chance they are mostly home games or there is some reason games from Busch are more attractive to them.
Bigger crowds.
Thought the same thing. I bet Bud and the boys don’t like seeing those tens of thousands of empty seats in Florida, for example….
Wasn’t Busch 4th in attendance last year?
Correct. 3.301 million. After Yankees, Phillies and Dodgers.
You don’t suppose that someone is anticipating a special story here in St Louis do you ? The hirelings over at Cards talk are promoting resignation of the inevitable………… DG is hyping the god like statistic, universal in their audacity and constancy. Polarizing…………..
Someone is going to be selling something……….and AP is part of the package. Fox doesn’t have any…………oh yeah……………
Four games broadcast nationally with the Reds and only two with the Cubs. The network must be expecting some fireworks.
All these national broadcast games, hope they play like Redbirds instead of Deadbirds!
And all 4 Cardinals/Reds games are at Busch.
Hate Saturday FOX games… down here in Tejas we invariably get Yankees-Red Sox… and they block out my Extra Innings package on DirecTV if the game covered by the local Austin FOX is in the same time slot. Grrrrrr!!!
Yea, I’m not a fan of those Fox games either.