Padres announce 2022 regular season broadcast schedule

March 29th, 2022

SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Padres, in partnership with Bally Sports San Diego and 97.3 The Fan, today announced their 2022 regular season broadcast schedule. All regular season Padres games will be televised in English on either Bally Sports San Diego, AppleTV+, ESPN, FS1, FOX Sports or TBS. Games produced by Bally Sports San Diego will also be available for live, authenticated streaming on the Bally Sports app and on BallySports.com, and a minimum of 79 regular season games will be available on a Bally Sports Spanish-language broadcast offering. Additionally, all 162 regular season games will be broadcast live on the radio in both English and Spanish on 97.3 The Fan and XEMO-AM La Poderosa 860, respectively.

Regular season coverage on Bally Sports San Diego includes 158 games and begins Thursday, April 7, with Major League Baseball’s Opening Day when the Padres take on the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix. Coverage will begin at 5:30 p.m. PT with an expanded Padres Live pregame show leading into the game and concludes with a 30-minute Padres Live postgame show. The home television broadcast schedule will commence on April 14 for the Padres’ Home Opener vs. the Atlanta Braves, featuring a one-hour Padres Live pregame show beginning at 4:00 p.m. PT. Bally Sports San Diego is widely available on AT&T Uverse, COX, Charter Spectrum, DirecTV and Mediacom. Fans interested in a streaming provider are encouraged to source DirecTV Stream.

Don Orsillo returns to handle the television play-by-play duties in 2022. He will be joined by former Padres pitcher Mark Grant returning in the role of analyst, along with Tony Gwynn Jr. for select games. Mike Pomeranz, Mark Sweeney, Bob Scanlan and Annie Heilbrunn will round out the Bally Sports San Diego broadcast team.  

The network will continue to deliver Padres Live pregame and postgame coverage, providing fans with unmatched access to the team with interviews, original features and more. Pomeranz and Sweeney will again deliver expert analysis all season long. 

Spanish TV coverage during the 2022 season begins on April 14 with a Bally Sports Spanish-language broadcast offering that features approximately 79 home games. Spanish-language voice of the Padres, Eduardo Ortega, along with former Padres catcher, Carlos Hernandez. Bally Sports Spanish-language telecasts will be available throughout San Diego on COX. 

All 162 regular season Padres games will air live on radio in both English and Spanish in 2022. English broadcasts with Jesse Agler and Tony Gwynn Jr. can be found on 97.3 The Fan and streamed on the Audacy app in San Diego. Padres Radio Network has expanded its reach to several cities outside of San Diego including Temecula, California (KXFG 92.9), Palm Springs, California (KKGX 920 AM and 99.1 FM) and Las Vegas, Nevada (98.5 HD2 The Fan). The Fan will also be home to one-hour pre and postgame shows in 2022. Sam Levitt, who was previously the play-by-play voice of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Double-A affiliate Amarillo Sod Poodles, will serve as the host of the pre and postgame shows as he enters his first season covering the Padres. 

Spanish radio broadcasts featuring Eduardo Ortega, Carlos Hernandez and Pedro Gutiérrez can be found on the Padres’ Spanish flagship station, XEMO-AM La Poderosa 860.  

Padres programming airing on Bally Sports San Diego will also stream live on the Bally Sports app and on ballysports.com when a consumer authenticates through their pay-tv service. The Bally Sports app will be available on mobile and tablet devices, including iOS and Android, as well as connected devices including, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, DIRECTV Stream, Google Chromecast, PlayStation, Roku Players and Roku TV, Samsung and LG platforms and Xbox One. Fans can download the app for free from the iTunes App Store, Google Play, Amazon App Store, Roku App Store, XBOX One App Store and Windows App Store.

The Padres will also be featured on several national broadcasts beginning with their return to FS1 on April 16 when they host the Braves, followed by ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball on April 17 vs. Atlanta to conclude the Home Opening Series. Other national broadcasts include four additional games on FS1: May 14 in Atlanta, May 21 in San Francisco against the Giants, June 30 in Los Angeles against the Dodgers and September 7 in Arizona. As part of MLB’s new partnership with Apple, fans can stream the May 13th Padres game on AppleTV+ when the team faces the Braves on the road as part of the newly announced “Friday Night Baseball.” The Padres will also be featured on TBS on April 12 when they play in San Francisco as well as on FOX Sports’ Saturday Game of the Week on July 2 when they visit the Dodgers and July 9 when they host the Giants. Additionally, two games will be broadcast on ESPN Radio on April 16 and 17 when the Padres host the Braves.

The complete 2022 broadcast schedule is available at www.padres.com. Please note: the schedule is subject to change.