The lockout bumped-back the Major League Baseball schedule for the 2022 season, and while that doesn’t truly matter too much in the grand scheme, it hit particularly hard in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, of course, has hosted Opening Day on the banks of the Ohio River since the dawn of baseball time, for a time always, always being the first game of the new baseball season. The lockout delay, though, now means they’ll open on the road in Atlanta on April 7th, and news broke this morning that the game has been moved to 8 PM ET for what will be a national broadcast on ESPN2.