schedule<\/a> includes 27 primetime games, primarily on Sunday nights as part of the \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d package that previously belonged to ESPN.<\/p>\n\u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d will debut March 29 with Guardians-Mariners on Peacock and NBCSN. Because of its NBA commitments, NBC will carry \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d only once before May 31 \u2014 Guardians-Braves on April 12. (NBC\u2019s \u201cSunday Night Basketball\u201d package is off that week because it is the final night of the NBA season, which contractually belongs to ESPN.) The MLB schedule confirms that NBC will air Sunday night NBA games through the conference finals.<\/p>\n
In the event that there are no NBA games on a certain Sunday night during the playoffs, \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d would move up to NBC.<\/p>\n
Starting May 31, \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d will air on NBC in all-but-two weeks until the start of the NFL season. MLB will again skip the Sunday night preceding All-Star Weekend on July 12, and ESPN has the MLB Little League Classic in its traditional Sunday night slot on August 23, leaving NBC with a Sunday afternoon window that week (Giants-Red Sox at 3 PM ET).<\/p>\n
In addition to \u201cSunday Night Baseball,\u201d NBCU also acquired the \u201cMLB Sunday Leadoff\u201d package of Sunday afternoon games as part of its new rights deal. Those games will air exclusively on Peacock (with most of those simulcast on NBCSN) \u2014 except for Mets-Braves on July 5, which will also air on NBC as part of a day-long marathon of MLB on NBC and Peacock.<\/p>\n
Beyond Opening Day and the weekly Sunday games, NBC will also carry a primetime game on Labor Day as part of its deal. That game will pit the Cardinals against the Giants.<\/p>\n
\u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d will usually start at 7 PM ET, with a couple of games set for 8 PM \u2014 Giants-Cubs on June 7 and Astros-Padres on August 9. The \u201cSunday Leadoff\u201d games will all begin at Noon ET or later, eliminating the morning start times that had been common for the package.<\/p>\n
NBC will also air coverage of the MLB Draft on Saturday, July 11, which will take place at 1:30 PM ET. NBCU will not carry games on the final day of the regular season this year, but will do so starting in 2027. For this season, the final day will feature whiparound coverage on NBCSN and Peacock.<\/p>\n
NBC\u2019s announcement of its full \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d schedule is a stark contrast from the norm when the package aired on ESPN. Sunday night game selections were typically made as the season progressed. But it is in keeping with the practice of fellow broadcast network FOX, which usually releases its full schedule at the start of the season.<\/p>\n
Additional game selections for the new season include the Yankees-Giants Opening Night game on Netflix March 25 and a Mets-Dodgers game on ESPN April 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new era of baseball on NBC will begin in New York and Los Angeles on Opening Day.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,14495,42962],"class_list":["post-514932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-mlb-on-nbc-peacock","tag-mlb-schedule-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115875860058131939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}