Danielle Solzman
ESPN kicks off its 36th and potentially final season of Sunday Night Baseball when the San Diego Padres host the Alanta Braves on March 30.
ESPN announced the first half of their schedule back in January. The 36th season of ESPN’s exclusive Major League Baseball game of the week begins on March 30 when the San Diego Padres and Fernando Tatís Jr. host the Atlanta Braves and Ronald Acuña Jr. Sunday Night Baseball generally airs at 7 p.m. ET and is available on ESPN, the ESPN App, ESPN Radio and ESPN Deportes. Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown generally airs on ESPN at 6 p.m. and serves as a one-hour Sunday Night Baseball pregame show.
ESPN broadcasts 25 Sunday Night Baseball games between late March and late September. Selections for additional Sunday Night Baseball games will be made up to two weeks prior to the date. Additionally, ESPN exclusively broadcasts five more exclusive MLB games, including an Opening Day doubleheader, the T-Mobile Home Run Derby and the MLB Wild Card Series.
ESPN announced in February that Play-by-Play commentator Karl Ravech, analysts David Cone and Eduardo Pérez and reporter Buster Olney will return for their fourth season as the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team. The quartet made its debut in 2022, while Olney has been a part of the franchise since 2011. In addition to the Sunday Night Baseball schedule, the quartet will call an Opening Day game and one MLB Wild Card Series matchup as well as other select games throughout the season
Play-by-Play commentator Jon “Boog” Sciambi and analyst Doug Glanville will return as the ESPN Radio Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team. The 2025 season marks Sciambi and Glanville’s fourth season together as the national audio team of Sunday Night Baseball. For Sciambi, it’s his 16th season as the national radio voice of Sunday Night Baseball.
ESPN Deportes will continue its Spanish-language coverage of the national Major League Baseball game of the week. The veteran team of Ernesto Jerez, Luis Alfredo Alvarez and Guillermo Celis return to provide commentary.
Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown will generally precede Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN from 6-7 PM. Kevin Connors will host most editions of Baseball Tonight with a cast of industry-leading analysts and reporters, including National Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Tim Kurkjian, senior MLB insider Jeff Passan and analysts Xavier Scruggs and Jessica Mendoza. The Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team will also make appearances on the show. Jessica Mendoza will continue to join ESPN’s Get Up connected to significant times on the MLB calendar.
In addition to Passan and Olney, ESPN has a robust team of reporters contributing MLB coverage across its platforms. Jesse Rogers, Alden Gonzalez, Jorge Castillo, Bradford Doolittle and David Schoenfield will continue to cover MLB for ESPN.com, while Kiley McDaniel will continue as ESPN’s MLB front office, draft and prospects expert.
Kevin Brown, Roxy Bernstein, Mike Monaco, Mike Couzens, Anish Shroff, Ben McDonald and Gregg Olson will also provide MLB commentary for select events during the season across ESPN platforms.
Buster Olney will also continue to host ESPN’s Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney podcast, available everywhere podcasts are streamed. Olney is regularly joined by his fellow ESPN analysts and reporters.
Sunday Night Baseball highlights:
- The top MLB stars take center stage, including Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Juan Soto, Mookie Betts, Bryce Harper, Ronald Acuña Jr., Fernando Tatís Jr., and more
- Teams with most early-season appearances include the Los Angeles Dodgers (4), New York Mets (4), Philadelphia Phillies (3), San Diego Padres (3)
- Subway Series: New York Mets visit New York Yankees during MLB Rivalry Week on May 18
- National League Championship Series rematch: Mookie Betts and the Los Angeles Dodgers visit Juan Soto and the New York Mets on May 25
- World Series Rematch: Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees visit Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 1
- Special Fourth of July weekend doubleheader on July 6 will include Texas Rangers vs. San Diego Padres (9 p.m.)
- 2025 MLB Little League Classic on Sunday Night Baseball: Seattle Mariners vs. New York Mets on August 17.
2025 Sunday Night Baseball schedule:
| Date | Game |
| March 30 | Atlanta Braves vs. San Diego Padres |
| April 6 | St. Louis Cardinals vs. Boston Red Sox |
| April 13 | Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers |
| April 20 | San Diego Padres vs. Houston Astros |
| April 27 | Philadelphia Phillies vs. Chicago Cubs |
| May 4 | Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Atlanta Braves |
| May 11 | Philadelphia Phillies vs. Cleveland Guardians |
| May 18 | New York Mets vs. New York Yankees |
| May 25 | Los Angeles Dodgers vs. New York Mets |
| June 1 | New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Dodgers |
| June 22 | New York Mets vs. Philadelphia Phillies |
| July 6* | TBD at 6 p.m. |
| July 6* | Texas Rangers vs. San Diego Padres at 9 p.m. |
| August 17 | MLB Little League Classic: Seattle Mariners vs. New York Mets |
*Sunday Night Baseball begins at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
ESPN’s Exclusive Opening Day Doubleheader
As previously announced, ESPN’s 36th season of MLB coverage begins with an Opening Day doubleheader on Thursday, March 27. At 3 PM, the defending American League Champion New York Yankees and Aaron Judge host the 2024 National League Central-winning Milwaukee Brewers and Christian Yelich.
At 7 PM, the reigning World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani host the Detroit Tigers and ace pitcher Tarik Skubal from Dodger Stadium. The Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team of Karl Ravech, analysts David Cone and Eduardo Pérez and reporter Buster Olney will provide commentary. At 6 PM, ESPN will air the Baseball Tonight pregame show, which will capture the World Series celebration and festivities from Dodger Stadium prior to the game. Kevin Connors hosts Baseball Tonight with analyst Xavier Scruggs and National Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Tim Kurkjian.
ESPN Radio’s season-opening coverage includes the Tigers vs. Dodgers MLB Opening Game with Mike Couzens and analyst Doug Glanville on commentary. ESPN Radio will then broadcast the Saturday, March 29, 1 PM matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and New York Yankees with Anish Shroff and Tim Kurkjian describing the action. Finally, Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN Radio for March 30 – Braves vs. Padres – will be called by Shroff and Glanville at 7 PM.
ESPN announced on March 23 it is soundtracking Sunday Night Baseball in collaboration with the Jonas Brothers and their new unreleased song “I Can’t Lose.” The song will be used as ESPN’s season-long anthem for all Sunday Night Baseball promotions, featured across the broadcasts and weekly tune-in commercials.
In addition to the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball schedule, ESPN+ will air an MLB game of the day throughout the season.
ESPN began broadcasting MLB games in 1990. The debut episode of Sunday Night Baseball was on April 15, 1990 when the New York Mets visited the Montreal Expos.
ESPN Sunday Night Baseball begins at 7 PM ET.
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