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It’s officially official! The Arizona Diamondbacks have become the latest team to depart from the Bally Sports family of regional sports networks (RSNs). Judge Christopher Lopez approved Bally Sports’ parent company Diamond Sports Group’s motion in U.S. bankruptcy court on Tuesday to surrender the Diamondback’s broadcasting rights.

Major League Baseball will now distribute the team’s games on local cable channels. The changeover will begin immediately; fans will be able to find games on these channels starting with the club’s Tuesday, July 18 game against the Atlanta Braves, which starts at 7:20 p.m. Et.

Check out the full list of new Arizona Diamondbacks broadcasters available below.

Platform Channels Cox Yurview Channels: Phoenix – Channel 4 / Tucson – Channel 7 Directv Channel 686 - 3 Fubo Available Spectrum/Charter Channel 304 Xfinity/Comcast Channel 1261 Mediacom Channels 159 & 764 Orbitel Channels 225 & 925 Optimum/Suddenlink Channel 41 – Bullhead City, Flagstaff, Lake Havasu City, Parker Channel 46 & 246 – Payson, Sedona, Strawberry...

Bally Sports Detroit said Wednesday that it has suspended Detroit Tigers TV commentator and Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Morris indefinitely in the wake of a comment he made about Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani during network’s broadcast of the Angeles-Tigers game Tuesday night.

Morris, a longtime analyst since retiring in 1994, used a mocking accent when asked during the sixth inning of the telecast how the Tigers should pitch to Japanese star Ohtani, one of baseball’s best players who has a MLB-best 39 home runs this season.

Morris replied in what appeared to be a mocking accent: “Be very, very careful.”

In the ninth inning he apologized on air after the comment drew ire online.

“Bally Sports Detroit is extremely disappointed with the remarks analyst Jack Morris made during last night’s Tigers game,” the network said in a statement. “Jack has been suspended indefinitely from Tigers broadcasts...

Bob Brenly, a former Arizona Diamondbacks major league manager turned TV analyst, said today he is taking a voluntary leave of absence from his commentary duties at Bally Sports Arizona to seek sensitivity training.

Brenly’s decision follows an on-air attempt at humor on Tuesday that fell flat. He commented on New York Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman’s head covering, saying, “Pretty sure that’s the same do-rag that Tom Seaver used to wear when he pitched for the Mets.”

A do-rag (sometimes spelled du-rag) is a close-fitting, typically stretchable piece of cloth that is worn on the head (as to hold a hairstyle in place) and that usually has long ends which are tied in the back,” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The phrase dates to 1968.

After the game, Stroman tweeted, “Onward and upward…through all adversity and racist undertones. The climb continues through all!”

Brenly responded the next day with a statement.

Any excuse to dress up as a Wookiee and a storm trooper on national television is a good excuse, so in the spirit of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ random “Star Wars” day on Sunday, Fox Sports announcers Steve Berthiaume and Bob Brenly did just that. See video: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Battle Over Who's the World's Biggest Star Wars Fan As Berthiaume put it before the start of the home team's third game in a series against the Chicago Cubs, the Force was with the team, as they won 3-2. See video: J.J. Abrams Reveals the ‘Star Wars: Episode VII...