Erin Andrews reveals why she won’t return to MLB coverage

You won’t be seeing Erin Andrews back in the dugout anytime soon.

The longtime Fox star reporter explained her rationale for no longer joining the network’s coverage of the MLB playoffs as she had done earlier in her career.

“I found that coming in at the end of the year after, you know, covering football and then jumping [in], I felt like I was doing a disservice to people that were watching at home,” Andrews, who covered the MLB All-Star Game and World Series for Fox from 2012-15, said on her “Calm Down” podcast this week in response to a fan question.

“I felt like there were other people that had covered it all throughout the year that knew the ins and outs.”

Andrews started covering the NFL exclusively after joining the top broadcast team with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman in 2016 when she re-signed with the network.

Andrews has since become a staple on the NFL sidelines and stuck with the top broadcast team — now Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady — even as Buck and Aikman left to call “Monday Night Football” for ESPN.

“That’s how I think about with football,” Andrews, 47, said, as covered by Awful Announcing. “If you’re not covering football all year long, and then you’re jumping into the playoffs, you don’t know the storylines. You don’t know what’s going on in the meetings. And I just felt like I was not giving what I could give, and what other people could do, like a Kenny Rosenthal … And I almost felt stupid. And the catch-up was really, really hard.”

Andrews has veered outside of sports, too.

She was a host of “Dancing With the Stars” for 11 seasons and has recently taken over the same role with Fox’s “99 to Beat.”

Andrews signed a lucrative extension with Fox over the summer, as did “Calm Down” co-host Charissa Thompson, who stars on the network’s studio show.