Nationals fans accustomed to a lack of coverage can rest easy. You will be able to see every one of the team’s 162 games this season; MASN and MASN2 will carry 161 and FOX 5 will air one national telecast.
Starting Saturday at 1 p.m. when the Nats face the Orioles, we will get to see the team all season long. Bob Carpenter, will be joined by his new partner, Don Sutton, and in-game reporter Debbi Taylor.
The Nationals and Orioles will each have 99 games on MASN. MASN2 will show 63 Orioles telecasts while the Nationals will be on 62 times. MASN2 will be seen in D.C. on Comcast channel 79 and on DirecTV channel 671. MASN2 on Comcast channel 79 will return to C-SPAN2 programming after baseball. Most Comcast systems will carry MASN2 games on their C-SPAN2 channel but if you have any questions, check www.masn.tv.
Baseball fans will be able to see every Nationals and Orioles game from Pennsylvania all the way to North Carolina. MY-20 (WDCA) will again air 30 Nationals games on weekends throughout the season. Those same games will be seen outside of the Washington market on either MASN or MASN2.
Once the season begins, “Nats Xtra” will be seen with the popular Johnny Holiday as the host and Ray Knight serving as the analyst for all Nationals pre- and post-game shows.
WTWP 1500-AM and 107.7 FM will carry all 162 games on radio with Charlie Slowes coming back for his third season. Dave Jageler will return for his second season. Slowes and Jageler are becoming one of the best radio broadcast teams in baseball.
The first of 10 Spring Training games starts Saturday and they will air all three games this weekend on WTWP 1500-AM and 107.7 FM.
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