A copy of the early season game schedule for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball for the 2025 season, the 36th season for the legendary Sunday night primetime series. (ESPN Press Room)
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Highlights:
- ESPN brings back the signature Sunday night exclusive national game of the week for the 36th straight season.
- Atlanta Braves to visit San Diego Padres in Sunday Night Baseball season opener on Sunday, March 30 at 7:00 PM ET/4:00 PM PT.
- 2024 World Series re-match: New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, June 1 at 7:00 PM ET; National League Championship Series re-match: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. New York Mets on Sunday, May 25 at 7:00 PM ET.
- Special Fourth of July Doubleheader (Sunday, July 6): Teams TBD at 6:00 PM ET followed by Texas Rangers vs. San Diego Padres at 9:00 PM ET.
- ESPN's Opening Day doubleheader on Thursday, March 27 features the 2024 World Series participants, the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, and the defending American League champion New York Yankees hosting games.
- 😢 ESPN bids goodbye to Major League Baseball following the 2025 season.
ESPN, in synchrony with Major League Baseball (MLB), announced the early season 2025 Sunday Night Baseball schedule earlier this week (Wednesday, January 15). ESPN is scheduled to start the 36th season of the exclusive Sunday night game of the week on Sunday, March 30 when Ronald Acuṉa Jr. and the Atlanta Braves battle Fernando Tatis Jr. and the San Diego Padres at 7:00 PM ET. As a quick reminder, Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts start at 7:00 PM ET on Sunday nights and can be found across ESPN, ESPN Radio, the ESPN App, and ESPN Deportes. Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown typically airs on ESPN at 6:00 PM ET and functions as a one-hour pregame program for Sunday Night Baseball.
ESPN will televise 25 Sunday Night Baseball games between late March and late September. Selections for additional Sunday Night Baseball games will be made up two weeks before the date of the game. Furthermore, ESPN holds exclusive rights to five additional MLB games (that don't count for the Sunday Night Baseball package), an Opening Day doubleheader, the T-Mobile Home Run Derby in July, and the MLB Wild Card Series in October.
* Commentary Teams:
Television -- For the fourth straight year, Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN features the commentary team of Karl Ravech (play-by-play), Eduardo Pérez (analyst), David Cone (analyst) & Buster Olney (reporter). In fact, Olney continues his longstanding run on the series, as Buster begins his 15th season as a reporter/contributor.
Radio -- On the radio side, Jon "Boog" Sciambi (play-by-play) and Doug Glanville (analyst) will be paired together to provide the Sunday Night Baseball radio call across the national airwaves of ESPN Radio.
Before Sunday Night Baseball, ESPN will have a one-hour pregame show to preview the upcoming SNB game and recap the other Sunday MLB matchups. Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown will generally air at 6:00 PM ET on Sunday nights, leading into the forthcoming SNB matchup. Host Kevin Connors will anchor most editions of the program, joined by respected and decorated analysts/insiders, including senior MLB insider Jeff Passan, National Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Tim Kurkjian, analysts Xavier Scruggs and Jessica Mendoza.
In addition to the MLB on ESPN commentators listed above, Mike Monaco, Anish Shroff, Mike Couzens, Kevin Brown, Roxy Bernstein, Ben McDonald, and Gregg Olson will also provide commentary for select events during the year on ESPN platforms.
2025 Sunday Night Baseball early-season game schedule highlights include:
- The top MLB stars take center stage, including Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Juan Soto, Mookie Betts, Bryce Harper, Ronald Acuña Jr., Fernando TatÃs Jr., and more.
- The clubs with the most early-season SNB games include the Los Angeles Dodgers (four), New York Mets (four), Philadelphia Phillies (three) & San Diego Padres (three).
- Subway Series: New York Mets vs. New York Yankees during MLB's Rivalry Week on Sunday, May 18.
- 2024 National League Championship Series: Mookie Betts and the defending World Series champions Los Angeles Dodgers visit Juan Soto and the New York Mets on Sunday, May 25.
- 2024 World Series re-match: Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees visit Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, June 1.
- The Special Fourth of July doubleheader includes TBD (6:00 PM ET) & Rangers-Padres (9:00 PM ET) on Sunday, July 6.
- The 2025 MLB Little League Classic on Sunday Night Baseball: Seattle Mariners vs. New York Mets on Sunday, August 17.
Opening Day on ESPN:
As previously announced, ESPN's 36th year of MLB coverage will start with a doubleheader on Opening Day, Thursday, March 27. At 3:00 PM ET, Aaron Judge and the defending American League champions New York Yankees hosted Christian Yelich and the defending National League Central champions Milwaukee Brewers to town. At 7:00 PM (ET), Tarik Skubal and the Detroit Tigers (coming off their first postseason since 2014) visit Shohei Ohtani and the reigning World Series champions Los Angeles Dodgers. Baseball Tonight will air from 6:00 PM ET to 7:00 PM ET on ESPN and will have live coverage of the Dodgers' banner-raising ceremony.
ESPN first broadcast MLB games way back in 1990. The debut episode of Sunday Night Baseball was on April 15, 1990, when the New York Mets visited the Montréal Expos (featuring the original SNB commentary crew of Jon Miller and the late great Joe Morgan). The network formerly televised two additional regular-season packages besides Sunday Night Baseball, Monday Night Baseball and Wednesday Night Baseball, until those programs were discontinued following the 2021 season (as ESPN decided to reduce their MLB coverage to just Sunday Night Baseball alongside marquee events - Home Run Derby and Wild Card Series and a downsized package of non-Sunday night games).
Sadly 😢, as we learned on Thursday, February 20, ESPN and Major League Baseball (MLB) are "mutually parting ways" following the 2025 season, meaning that this is ESPN's final season carrying Major League Baseball following a 36-season run. I have set up a link to an article on Yahoo Sports, explaining in greater detail the MLB/ESPN breakup. So, please read it when you have some time.
The following is the complete regular season schedule for the MLB on ESPN during the 2025 season. The schedule will include the Sunday Night Baseball games in addition to selecting non-SNB games that ESPN will also be televising during the season (Subject to Change).
- MLB on ESPN: 2025 MLB Spring Training National Broadcast Schedule (All Times ET and Subject to Change)
| Monday, March 3 (Spring Training)
. Red Sox vs. Orioles (Ed Smith Stadium - Sarasota, FL) - ESPN, 1:00 PM ET -
| Tuesday, March 4 (Spring Training)
. Mets vs. Cardinals (Roger Dean Stadium - Jupiter, FL) - ESPN, 1:00 PM ET -
| Wednesday, March 5 (Spring Training)
. Phillies vs. Tigers (Joker Marchant Stadium - Lakeland, FL) - ESPN, 1:00 PM ET -
| Thursday, March 6 (Spring Training)
. Twins vs. Yankees (George M. Steinbrenner Field - Tampa, FL) - ESPN, 1:00 PM ET -
- MLB on ESPN: 2025 MLB Regular Season National Broadcast Schedule (All Times ET and Subject to Change)
| Thursday, March 27 (Opening Day)
. Brewers at Yankees - ESPN, 3:00 PM ET - Joe Buck, Joe Girardi, Bill Schroeder
. Tigers at Dodgers - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET - Karl Ravech, Eduardo Pérez, David Cone, Buster Olney
| Sunday, March 30 (season premiere of "Sunday Night Baseball")
. Braves at Padres - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, April 6
. Cardinals at Red Sox - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, April 13
. Cubs at Dodgers - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, April 20
. Padres at Astros - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, April 27
. Phillies at Cubs - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, May 4
. Dodgers at Braves - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, May 11 (Mothers' Day)
. Phillies at Guardians - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, May 18 (Rivalry Week)
. Mets at Yankees - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, May 25
. Dodgers at Mets - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, June 1
. Yankees at Dodgers - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, June 8
TBD
| Sunday, June 15
TBD
| Sunday, June 22
. Mets at Phillies - ESPN, 7:00 PM ET -
| Sunday, June 29
TBD
| Sunday, July 6 (special "Sunday Night Baseball" doubleheader)
. Teams TBD - ESPN, 6:00 PM ET -
. Rangers at Padres - ESPN, 9:00 PM ET -
| Monday, July 14 (2025 MLB All-Star Week - Atlanta, Georgia)
. 2025 MLB Home Run Derby (Truist Park) - ESPN/ESPN2, 8:00 PM ET - TBD (ESPN) | TBD (ESPN2)
| Sunday, July 20
TBD
| Sunday, July 27
TBD
| Sunday, August 3
TBD
| Sunday, August 10
TBD
| Sunday, August 17 -- MLB Little League Classic (Williamsport, Pennsylvania)
. Mariners vs. Mets (Bowman Field) - ESPN/ESPN2, 7:00 PM ET - TBD (ESPN) | TBD (ESPN2, "KidsCast")
| Sunday, August 24
TBD
| Sunday, August 31
TBD
| Sunday, September 7
TBD
| Sunday, September 14
TBD
| Sunday, September 21
TBD
|| Sources 🛈: ESPN Press Room (early season 2025 SNB schedule)
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