The Minnesota Twins were scheduled to play the New York Mets on Wednesday, with first pitch set for 6:10 PM. The game was set to air on Twins.TV and on radio through TIBN, WCCO 830, The Wolf 102.9 FM and the Audacy App.
The matchup carried a little more edge because the Mets were down a dozen straight, a skid that hung over a game already pushed into a specific viewing lane. Fans in Connecticut were blacked out, and the source listing the broadcast options also noted the game was unavailable on SNY in that area.
That made the broadcast map part of the story, not just the backdrop. For Twins fans and Mets followers trying to find the game, Wednesday night was less about where the teams stood in the standings than where the game could actually be seen or heard.
The matchup itself offered the simplest possible test: a Twins - Mets game with one team trying to stop a slide and the other arriving with a full slate of viewing options around it. The next thing that mattered was the first pitch, because by 6:10 PM the only question left was whether the Mets could end the streak before it grew any longer.