{"id":335152,"date":"2025-12-08T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335152\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:25:07","slug":"espns-1st-2026-mlb-broadcast-is-mets-dodgers-on-jackie-robinson-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335152\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN’s 1st 2026 MLB broadcast is Mets-Dodgers on Jackie Robinson Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN’s first Major League Baseball game next season will be on April 15 when the two-time reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> host the New York Mets<\/a> on MLB Jackie Robinson Day.<\/p>\n

The network also announced on Monday it will air a matchup between the New York Yankees<\/a> and Kansas City Royals<\/a> on Memorial Day (May 25).<\/p>\n

ESPN will air 30 games this season under a reworked three-year deal that begins next season. ESPN becomes the rights holder for MLB.TV, the out-of-market streaming package, and gets the in-market streaming rights for the six teams whose games are produced by MLB: San Diego, Colorado, Arizona, Cleveland, Minnesota and Seattle.<\/p>\n

“Sunday Night Baseball” and the Wild Card round games will air on NBC and Peacock and the Home Run Derby moves to Netflix.<\/p>\n

The 30 games ESPN will air will be primarily on weeknights and in the summer months.<\/p>\n

It also includes the second-half opener between the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> on July 16 and the MLB Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, between the Atlanta Braves<\/a> and Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> on Aug. 23. Both games will start at 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

“Our exclusive 30-game linear package, which includes new tentpole events like our Memorial Day game and the second-half opener, will be a great complement to the thousands of games that we’ll stream as part of our exclusive MLB.TV rights,” said Julie Sobieski, ESPN’s senior vice president of league sports programming and acquisitions.<\/p>\n

ESPN2 will have an episode of “Baseball Tonight” on Wednesday night beginning at 11 p.m. ET to recap the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISTOL, Conn. — ESPN’s first Major League Baseball game next season will be on April 15 when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-335152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}