The network that airs Thursday Night Football will air Thursday night baseball in September. Also: ESPN could include ABC in its next bid for NFL rights, and ESPN has canceled plans to send College Gameday to Syracuse this weekend.

The FOX broadcast network will carry a pair of Thursday night Major League Baseball games in September, just the fourth and fifth time since FOX acquired rights that it has aired a regular season game on a weeknight. The network carried Alex Rodriguez‘ final game on a Friday night in 2016, Yankees-Red Sox on a Friday night in 2004, and Mark McGwire‘s then-record 62nd home run on a Thursday night in 1998.

Game selections for the regionalized windows are to be determined. The games are scheduled for September 12 and 19, coinciding with Weeks 2 and 3 of the NFL season. It goes without saying that Thursday Night Football will air exclusively on NFL Network in those weeks.

With the addition of the Thursday night windows, FOX will largely do away with the Saturday afternoon telecasts that typically ran into its college football coverage. FOX is set to carry only one Saturday window in September, on the final weekend of the season. [Fox Sports]