2012 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL OPENING DAY SERIES BEING PLAYED IN JAPAN


 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 28 March 2012

 

2012 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL OPENING DAY SERIES BEING PLAYED IN JAPAN

 

AIRED LIVE IN PRIME TIME ON FOX SPORTS AUSTRALIA TONIGHT

 

Sydneysider Grant Balfour and his Oakland Athletics to take on the Seattle Mariners at the Tokyo Dome tonight and tomorrow night to kick off the 2012 season

 

      Tonight and tomorrow night Australian baseball fans will, for the first time, enjoy regular season Major League Baseball live on prime time television.  With the 2012 Opening Day Series being played in Japan between Sydneysider Grant Balfour’s Oakland Athletics and the Seattle Mariners the games will air live here in Australia:

          Tonight (Wednesday 28 March):     9.00 pm EDT on FOX Sports 1

          Tomorrow (Thursday 29 March):    8:00 pm EDT on FOX Sports 2

 

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