{"id":607492,"date":"2026-03-05T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/607492\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:40:29","slug":"nbc-names-jason-benetti-as-its-top-play-by-play-announcer-for-mlb-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/607492\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC names Jason Benetti as its top play-by-play announcer for MLB coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d has its voice.<\/p>\n

NBC Sports announced Wednesday that Jason Benetti will be the play-by-play announcer for the network\u2019s new \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d package on NBC and Peacock, something that had been widely expected for some time now.<\/p>\n

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His first game on-air for NBC this season will be on March 26, when the Dodgers host the Diamondbacks in an Opening Day battle.<\/p>\n

Benetti will remain as the TV voice of the Tigers\u2019 local broadcasts, and while on the air for \u201cSunday Night Baseball,\u201d he will be paired with analysts who have connections to the teams playing in that day\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Benetti before a Hall of Fame Series college basketball game between the Connecticut Huskies and the Gonzaga Bulldogs at Madison Square Garden on December 14, 2024. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled to be rejoining the NBC Sports family,\u201d Benetti said in a statement. \u201cRick Cordella, Sam Flood and the whole team at NBC all have a deep appreciation for live sports. It\u2019s a true honor to be part of the dawn of Sunday Night Baseball at NBC Sports. Each week is going to be a new, unique experience with analysts who all have different viewpoints on the game of baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This will be Benetti\u2019s second go-around at NBC, having done play-by-play duty on NBC\u2019s \u201cMLB Sunday Leadoff\u201d in 2022 on Peacock.<\/p>\n

He also called baseball games during the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Jason finished the 2022 baseball season with us, we told him that if we ever got MLB back, he\u2019d be our first call,\u201d NBC Sports Executive Producer Sam Flood said in a statement. \u201cJason is one of the best play-by-play announcers in the business and we\u2019re thrilled to have him back on a full-time basis with NBC Sports, beginning with Sunday Night Baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Front Office Sports reported Wednesday<\/a> that Benetti had been released from his contract with Fox early in order to take the NBC gig.<\/p>\n

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NBC Sports has put together an all-star lineup, adding former MLB stars Joey Votto, Clayton Kershaw and Anthony Rizzo for its studio show.<\/p>\n

\"Sportscaster<\/p>\n

Sportscaster Jason Benetti gets ready to call the Pac-12 Coast-to-Coast Challenge between the Texas Longhorns and the Stanford Cardinal at T-Mobile Arena on December 19, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Bob Costas will also contribute in an emeritus role as he winds down his broadcasting career.<\/p>\n

Costas told the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> that he would be hosting the pregame show for about two-thirds of NBC\u2019s coverage leading up to a \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d has its voice. NBC Sports announced Wednesday that Jason Benetti will be the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3882,5,1147,78388,6221,38,36938,8580,27630,4,677,3625,78806,74026,10742,13133],"class_list":["post-607492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anthony-rizzo","tag-baseball","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-college-basketball-game","tag-connecticut-huskies","tag-diamondbacks","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-jason-benetti","tag-joey-votto","tag-mlb","tag-nbc","tag-nbc-sports","tag-play-by-play-announcer","tag-sam-flood","tag-stanford-cardinal","tag-sunday-night-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116175913926048338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607492","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=607492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}