Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros began on a Friday instead of Tuesday, as in past years. Since Minute Maid Park, the venue at which the series began, has a retractable roof, as expected neither of the first two games were postponed. However, Game 3 (the first game after the series shifted to Philadelphia) was postponed on October 31; at that time, MLB announced that all remaining games would be played one day later than scheduled. This created a possible conflict between Game 7 and the November 6 contest between the Tennessee Titans and the Kansas City Chiefs. But this was averted when, the night before, the Astros defeated the Phillies 4-1 to win the title, their second in six seasons with the other being in the infamous 2017 season. The closest MLB team to the Packers is the Milwaukee Brewers, in a market officially shared with them, while the Bills' closest MLB neighbors are the Toronto Blue Jays. The latter two cities are interconnected in both sports; the 2020 and 2021 teams played some home games in Buffalo due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while the Bills once played select home games at Rogers Centre in Toronto. Tennessee doesn't have a neighboring MLB team, while the Kansas City Royals, the neighboring MLB team in Kansas City, had a losing record for the seventh season in a row in 2022, covering every season since its last World Series title in 2015. With NASCAR On October 23, 2022, for the first time, NBC showed a NASCAR Cup Series race and an SNF game from the same metropolitan area on the same day. In a race that started at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, Kyle Larson won the Dixie Vodka 400 at Homestead–Miami Speedway; then in a game that kicked off at 8:25 (a few minutes later than usual due to ceremonies honoring the 1972 Miami Dolphins, still the only NFL team to complete an undefeated season including playoffs), the Miami Dolphins defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 16-10 at Hard Rock Stadium. Both venues are in Miami-Dade County, Florida. With the NHL The SNF game on September 27, 2020 between the Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints prompted the National Hockey League to schedule games 4 and 5 of the 2020 Stanley Cup Finals on the previous two days back-to-back, as NBC was contractually required to air all potential series-clinchers