Fox Sports Loses Power During World Series Broadcast

“We know it couldn’t have happened at a worse time, and we’re working as quickly as we can to fix it”, it said on Twitter.

Fox switched to the Major League Baseball Network’s live worldwide feed of the game, though that too went down before shortly coming back on air.

The issue affected the video-replay system.

Although it is interesting to note that five of the six World Series games in ’95 were decided by just one run, including the game-clinching Game Six for Atlanta. He flied out to end the inning. Among the key demo, Chicago’s win over Lebron James and Cleveland and reigning champ Golden State’s victory over New Orleans was up 18 percent over last year’s two-game season opener, helping TNT take the night in cable.

Buck says the double generator outage forced the Fox team to go into another broadcasting booth, which was already occupied.

Alcides Escobar got the Royals on the board first, launching Matt Harvey’s opening delivery to the warning track in center field and racing all the way around the bases on a Yoenis Cespedes misplay for a leadoff inside-the-park home run. But this time, both went down. More than 30 minutes after the problems began, Fox still hadn’t fully resolved them. After a few minutes there, where O’Toole, Dontrelle Willis and Eric Karros discussed the game to that point, the broadcast returned at 9:22.

The worldwide feed, as I am sure you will agree, was far superior to Fox’s broadcast in every way, from camera coverage to graphics to announcing.

The Royals eventually prevailed 5-4 in 14 innings.

Right after its coverage cut out, FOX Sports tweeted this apology to viewers, before issuing an official statement, calling the incident ” a rare electronics failure” that “caused both the primary and backup generators inside the FOX Sports production compound to lose power”. The National Basketball Association has made a point of not only keeping nationally televised games on free television every so often, but making itself an indispensable portion of youth and popular culture. The Fox crew did that for 38 minutes until Fox rebooted its transmission. We’ve got Jake (deGrom) going tomorrow.