We know Apple is new to broadcasting baseball, but surely someone at the company knows the definition of “doubleheader.”
If not, I’d direct employees to consult my good friend Merriam-Webster, who defines doubleheader as “two games, contests or events held consecutively on the same program.”
Key word: consecutively, as in one after the other.
So it’s puzzling that Apple TV+’s “Friday Night Baseball,” initially billed as “a weekly doubleheader,” would air games scheduled to start one hour apart. That’s the case this week when the Cubs visit the Phillies at 6 p.m. and the White Sox host the Guardians at 7 p.