As the showcase event of one of the nation's four major sports, the World Series is a pretty big deal.
For a few brief minutes, viewers couldn't see the Game 1 action between the Mets and Royals on Tuesday night. Fox lost power to a broadcast truck during the fourth inning. The glitch even stopped folks from streaming the game online. The outage also caused a brief delay in the game,
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FOX released the following statement on the outage.
The full statement from Fox re the World Series broadcast outage pic.twitter.com/n3n75WaYe6
— Eric Fisher (@EricFisherSBJ) October 28, 2015With network down, game delayed because of inability to review replays in New York.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 28, 2015Fox eventually switched to its international broadcast, which had remained on air, with Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz on the call. The network team of Joe Buck, Harold Reynolds and Tom Verducci later took over that production.
Things finally returned to normal after two innings of chaos.
The regular Fox broadcast feed/graphics are now fully back. Bottom 6, 3-1 Mets.
— Eric Fisher (@EricFisherSBJ) October 28, 2015Hey, pobody's nerfect, even during the World Series, but you know the Internet, where there's no chill whatsoever, couldn't let the opportunity to take a few shots pass by.
this is what happens when A-Rod works for you in the playoffs pic.twitter.com/dPSXxX0fdv
— Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) October 28, 2015
We just delayed a World Series game because America couldn’t hear Harold Reynolds. Think about that.
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) October 28, 2015Joe Buck commandeers the international broadcast booth. Haven't the people of Syria been through enough? #WorldSeries
— Mike Berardino (@MikeBerardino) October 28, 2015@sportingnews a muted Joe Buck is always welcomed.
— Mike Young (@MikeYou34) October 28, 2015
— SI Extra Mustard (@SI_ExtraMustard) October 28, 2015#WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/VrXJKFkFzN
— Jeff Sterling (@jsterling86) October 28, 2015And, of course, there's already a @foxsportstuck Twitter account up.