MLB-associated productions win big at 2025 Sports Emmys

May 21st, 2025

Major League Baseball just keeps collecting wins, on and off the field.

Fresh off a wildly successful Rivalry Weekend and a record-setting day in attendance, MLB and its broadcast partners were big winners on Tuesday at the 2025 Sports Emmys, with five awards going to MLB-affiliated content.

Two of those awards went to Netflix productions produced in association with MLB Studios.

"The Comeback," a three-part Netflix series that documents the historic Red Sox comeback against the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS, won Outstanding Documentary Series.

Meanwhile, Netflix's "The Turnaround," which chronicles a fan-fueled love fest for a then-struggling Trea Turner in 2023, was named Outstanding Short Documentary.

Representatives from MLB, Netflix, Meadowlark Media, Barnicle Bros. (filmmakers, "The Comeback"), along with Kyle Thrash (filmmaker, "The Turnaround") and Jon McCann (subject of "The Turnaround") at the 2025 Sports Emmys in New York.
Representatives from MLB, Netflix, Meadowlark Media, Barnicle Bros. (filmmakers, "The Comeback"), along with Kyle Thrash (filmmaker, "The Turnaround") and Jon McCann (subject of "The Turnaround") at the 2025 Sports Emmys in New York.

In other categories, FOX won the Emmy for Outstanding Live Special -- Non-Championship Event for last summer's Negro Leagues tribute game between the Cardinals and Giants at historic Rickwood Field, while FOX/FS1 took home the award for Outstanding Studio Show -- Limited Run for their postseason coverage.

In addition, FOX broadcaster Joe Davis was named Outstanding Personality -- Play-by-Play.

In other honors, MLB Network's "MLB Central" and "MLB Tonight" were nominated for Outstanding Daily Studio Show.

For more on the 2025 Sports Emmys, visit theemmys.tv./sports.