Danielle Solzman
Joe Buck gets the Opening Day call as ESPN kicks off its coverage of the 2025 MLB season today with the New York Yankees hosting the Milwaukee Brewers.
Buck, the voice of ESPN’s Monday Night Football and veteran of 24 World Series, will call his first national Major League Baseball game since the 2021 World Series on Thursday, March 27. Buck will provide play-by-play for ESPN’s exclusive MLB Opening Day presentation of the Milwaukee Brewers at New York Yankees game, beginning at 3 PM ET from Yankee Stadium.
Last summer, Buck teamed up with Chip Caray for a St. Louis Cardinals vs. Texas Rangers game on what was then called Bally Sports Midwest. They were supposed to team up in May 2024 but the Cardinals game against the Chicago Cubs was rained out. It was a team-up in the making as Jack Buck and Harry Caray were the primary Cardinals voices during the 1963-69 seasons. The elder Buck was a part of the Cardinals broadcast team during 1954-58 and was rehired starting with the 1961 season. The elder Caray was a Cardinals broadcaster from 1945-69.
YES Network analyst Joe Girardi and Brewers analyst Bill Schroeder will join Buck to form a three-person booth for the special broadcast.
“Opening Day has always been a signature day on the sports calendar and, personally, it remains special,” said Buck. “ESPN approached me with this one-off opportunity to help launch the season and it was a quick ‘yes.’ Joe and Bill are both great friends and better baseball minds and I know they will carry the telecast, while I just plan to be along for the ride.”
Buck joined ESPN in 2022 to become the voice of Monday Night Football, alongside analyst Troy Aikman and reporter Lisa Salters.
“Joe Buck is synonymous with Major League Baseball and his presence in the booth will be an incredible addition to our Opening Day coverage,” said Burke Magnus, ESPN President, Content. “We appreciate Joe, as well as Joe Girardi and Bill Schroeder, for agreeing to get together for this special broadcast. Opening Day at Yankee Stadium just got even bigger, and I’ll be one of many fans enjoying the call on March 27.”
The Brewers vs. Yankees game is the first half of an ESPN’s exclusive Opening Day doubleheader. At 7 PM ET, the defending World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Detroit Tigers. The Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team – Karl Ravech, analysts Eduardo Pérez and David Cone, and reporter Buster Olney – will call the action.
ESPN’s Opening Day presentation airs live at 3 PM ET from Yankee Stadium.
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