World Series schedule 2012: Start times announced

The start times for this year's World Series games were announced by Major League Baseball on Monday, as Al Beaton of Bless You Boys writes. Following Game 7 of the NLCS on Monday night, the Detroit Tigers will be heading to either San Francisco or St. Louis to face the winner of that match-up.

With FOX broadcasting the games in primetime for the East Coast, start times for each game are past 8 p.m. locally. The times for each game are as follows, all in Eastern time:

• Game 1 - Wednesday, Oct 24: Air time - 7:30 PM, First pitch - 8:07 PM
• Game 2 - Thursday, Oct. 25: Air time - 7:30 PM, First pitch - 8:07 PM
  
• Game 3 - Saturday, Oct. 27: Air time - 7:30 PM, First pitch - 8:07 PM
• Game 4 - Sunday, Oct. 28: Air time - 8:00 PM, First pitch - 8:15 PM
  
• (If necessary) Game 5 - Monday, Oct 29: Air time - 7:30 PM, First pitch - 8:07 PM
• (If necessary) Game 6 - Wednesday, Oct. 31: Air time - 7:30 PM, First pitch - 8:07 PM
• (If necessary) Game 7 - Thursday, November 1: Air time - 7:30 PM, First pitch - 8:07 PM
Games 3, 4 and 5 will be hosted by Detroit, while Games 1, 2, 6 and 7 will be hosted by either the Giants or Cardinals.