As baseball games get longer and longer, the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball game became problematic for many. An 8 p.m. ET start wound up with games ending too late for many on the East Coast. And players who had to travel to another city for a game the next day wound up with less rest. This happened to the Cubs last Memorial Day weekend, when they had to play a 7 p.m. CT game at Wrigley Field against the Giants and then another one less than 19 hours later, at 1:35 p.m. ET in Pittsburgh.
ESPN Sunday Night Baseball will start an hour earlier in 2019
