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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – JULY 11: Paul Skenes #30 of the Pittsburgh Pirates delivers a pitch against the Minnesota Twins in the first inning at Target Field on July 11, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)
MLB Opening Day 2026 is today. Never mind that Netflix game last night. With 22 teams opening their season today and another six on Friday, every starting pitcher, game time and TV broadcast is now confirmed across the league.
Paul Skenes, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Garret Crochet and Tarik Skubal will all take the mound today, along with Jacob Misiorowski and Cristopher Sánchez in an exciting slate of Opening Day matchups that showcase many of the greatest pitchers in baseball.
With three Opening Day MLB games on national television, 2026 marks the entry of the online streaming service giant Netflix into MLB. In the first of two games it will stream live this season, Netflix on Wednesday carried the season-opening clash between the New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, the only game that will be played on Wednesday, March 25.
The Yankees-Giants Netflix game also featured what was billed as one of the most captivating pitching matchups of any Opening Day game, with the Yankees sending left-hander Max Fried, who led the majors with 19 wins last year while placing third in American League Cy Young Award voting.
The Giants in the interleague matchup countered with their own ace, right-hander Logan Webb, a two-time All-Star who led the National League in strikeouts in 2025 with 224 and has led the NL in innings pitched three seasons in a row.
But the Yankees shelled Webb for six runs in five innings on their way to a resounding 7-0 victory.
All games not televised nationally will be carried by local outlets, and can be accessed out-of-market with the paid-subscription MLB.TV package.
MLB Opening Day 2026: Full Starting Pitchers, Schedule and TV Broadcasts
Skenes vs. Peralta Highlights First Full Day of Games
After the Wednesday night Yankees-Giants game on Netflix, Thursday brings a day-long slate of games as MLB returns to the NBC network after 26 years.
NBC will televise the other most electrifying pitching matchup of the Opening Day slate, when the Pittsburgh Pirates send reigning Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes to the mound against a new-look New York Mets team at Citi Field in New York City.
The two aces faced off twice in 2025, when Peralta was still with the Milwaukee Brewers. Skenes took a no-decision in the first matchup in May, but later in the season Peralta shut out the Pirates over six innings to take the victory over Skenes and Pittsburgh.
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