{"id":661231,"date":"2026-04-03T17:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661231\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:57:17","slug":"fox-17-set-to-air-several-detroit-tigers-games-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661231\/","title":{"rendered":"FOX 17 set to air several Detroit Tigers games in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 The Detroit Tigers hope to make it three-straight seasons of playoff baseball in the Motor City and this year FOX 17 is along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with Detroit Sportsnet, FOX 17 will air select Detroit Tigers games throughout 2026.<\/p>\n<p>With 2-time reigning Cy Young winner <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/sports\/tigers-and-justin-verlander-agree-to-one-year-contract-for-2026-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarik Skubal<\/a>, future Hall of Famer <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/sports\/tigers-and-justin-verlander-agree-to-one-year-contract-for-2026-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Verlander<\/a>, and rookie phenom <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/sports\/a-familiar-face-hits-the-field-former-whitecaps-kevin-mcgonigal-makes-his-tigers-debut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin McGonigle<\/a>, the Tigers are expected to be one of the better teams in Major League Baseball this season.<\/p>\n<p>Our partnership began with <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox17online.com\/sports\/new-way-to-watch-tigers-home-opener-against-the-cardinals-in-detroit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">airing the home opener<\/a> on April 3 on FOX 17&#8217;s sub-channel, Antenna TV.<\/p>\n<p>Another nine games will air on FOX 17. Here&#8217;s the schedule:<\/p>\n<p>April 16, vs. Kansas City Royals, pregame coverage begins at 12:30 p.m.May 6, vs. Boston Red Sox, pregame coverage begins at 6 p.m.May 21, vs. Cleveland Guardians, pregame coverage begins at 12:30 p.m.May 28, vs. Los Angeles Angels, pregame coverage begins at 12:30 p.m.June 5, vs. Seattle Mariners, pregame coverage begins at 6 p.m.July 24, vs. Kansas City Royals, pregame coverage begins at 6 p.m.August 13, vs. Cleveland Guardians, pregame coverage begins at 1 p.m.September 9, vs. Minnesota Twins, pregame coverage begins at 1 p.m.September 23, vs. Washington Nationals, pregame coverage begins at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775239037_866_.png\" alt=\"Detroit Tigers on FOX 17.png\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WXMI<\/p>\n<p>When games are scheduled in the evening, FOX prime-time programming will air in full after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Follow FOX 17: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fox17online\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> &#8211; <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X (formerly Twitter)<\/a> &#8211; <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fox17online\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> &#8211; <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/wxmi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 The Detroit Tigers hope to make it three-straight seasons of playoff baseball in the Motor City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,41868,41867,4,594,41765],"class_list":{"0":"post-661231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroittigers","12":"tag-fox-17","13":"tag-fox-17-sports","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-tigers","16":"tag-west-michigan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116342073663413675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}