Some baseball TV notes for you today.
-- Time Warner Cable Sports channel 3 will televise five International League baseball games between the Buffalo Bisons and the Syracuse Shy Chiefs next week. It starts with a double-header Monday at 5 p.m. from Syracuse. The two teams play in Syracuse again at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
The series shifts to Buffalo for games Wednesday (7 p.m.) and Thursday (1 p.m.).
-- MLB Network’s "Studio 42 with Bob Costas" will host a conversation with former St. Louis Cardinals teammates Bob Gibson and Tim McCarver at 7 p.m. Monday.
he conversation includes interviews with players from the 1964, 1967 and 1968 World Series, including former New York Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton, former Detroit Tigers left fielder Willie Horton, former Detroit Tigers right fielder Al Kaline and former Boston Red Sox pitcher Jim Lonborg.
Following the interview, MLB Network will air Game One of the 1968 World Series at 8 p.m., in which Gibson threw a record-setting 17 strikeouts.
-- Also on Monday, special feature narrated by Costas about Don Drysdale’s sixth straight shutout game, pitched in 1968. The game, held on June 4 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, coincided with Robert F. Kennedy’s victory in the 1968 California primary. In the first words of his acceptance speech, Kennedy congratulated Drysdale. Moments after the speech, Kennedy was assassinated. Four days later, Drysdale broke a 55-year old record for consecutive scoreless innings, and wore a black arm band to honor Kennedy’s memory.
The piece will first air between 6 and 8, and re-air throughout the night on "MLB Tonight" and "Quick Pitch."
