Television production can’t often turn on a dime, but SportsTime Ohio is doing a lot of dime turning this week.
With baseball officials moving the Cleveland Indians series with the Los Angeles Angels to Milwaukee’s Miller Park, STO says they’ll air the three-game set as scheduled – scooping up a last-minute commitment on a production truck in Wisconsin, and flying staffers up to Milwaukee.
The sole casualty of the move will be STO’s HDTV telecast, which won’t take place since the games will not be in the already-equipped-for-HDTV confines of Jacobs Field.
STO’s release says that in place of tonight’s cancelled games with Seattle, the network will turn to its archives to re-air the “enhanced version” of Len Barker’s perfect game.
And different, since last time this classic game aired on STO – that game’s color commentator, Bruce Drennan, is now a staff member of the network…
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