LOS ANGELES — A good many Padres fans — or are they a vocal minority? — get worked up when a national telecast involves their squad.

Their fine-tuned antennae detect from network broadcasters an anti-Padres bias, plus a cluelessness about the Padres.

Sunday’s NBC/Peacock telecast of the Padres-Dodgers series, I predict, won’t bring more of the same.

Not regarding Jake Peavy, at least.

If the NBC newcomer were any more pro-Padre, he’d wear a brown-and-gold blazer at Dodger Stadium.

Peavy pitched for several Padres teams, winning a Cy Young award. And he works for the Padres, reporting to A.J. Preller on the baseball side and Erik Greupner on the corporate end.

“I hope that the Padres’ fans enjoy getting to hear my perspective,” said Peavy, 45. “I don’t know that they want us to be biased either way. They just want knowledge of either team.”

As part of “Star Spangled Sunday” that has NBC entities broadcasting all 15 MLB games in one day, Peavy will partner with White Sox play-by-play broadcaster Jason Benetti, Dodgers broadcast analyst Orel Hershiser and dugout reporter C.C. Sabathia, making it three Cy Young winners on the call.

“Jake’s got a sharp mind and a quick wit,” Benetti said in an email. “After doing one game with him, it was very clear that he’s a really strong listener, too. Great teammate.”

My advice to Peavy: be yourself. And please, don’t talk as often as John Smoltz.

As with his pitching career, Peavy won’t lack for enthusiasm.

He said he’s fallen in love with game commentary since branching out this year, while also retaining his studio job with MLB Network.

“I never in a million years envisioned myself doing this,” he said of booth work. “But baseball has been a big part of my life.”

“It’s a completely different animal than studio work,” he added.

This will be Peavy’s seventh game from the booth, counting also five MLB games with the BBC and a Padres-Mariners contest alongside Benetti last month.

“I was so nervous going into that last one in Seattle,” he said, adding that Padres fans gave him nice feedback afterward.

The Alabama resident said he’s a big fan of every Padres broadcaster.

He counts friend and former ace pitcher Rick Sutcliffe as a broadcasting mentor, and cherishes the advice from Dick Enberg, conveyed by a mutual friend before the former play-by-play great died nine years ago at 82.

“When you are calling a game’s first three innings, you let the play-by-play guy introduce the characters,” Peavy said, quoting Enberg.

“The second three innings, innings four through six, is where an analyst can shine. You can find a plot throughout the game, and rely on your experience to let the viewer know where the game is going.

“And the last three innings, when you hope the game is being decided, you’re taking a bow to the players who have won the game and really giving them their due.”

It would be ridiculous to ask Peavy to go an entire game without complimenting the Dodgers, despite the ex-Padre and ex-Giant having played teams that he said “can’t stand the Dodgers.”

The former Padre, who played under Bruce Bochy and Bud Black in San Diego, deemed L.A. an “exceptionally tight-knit” team.

“Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts have that clubhouse; player to player accountability is where it’s at,” said Peavy, a teammate to Betts with Boston’s World Series winner in 2013, a year before the pitcher won a World Series with Bochy’s Giants.

“Dave Roberts,” he said, “is as good of a human being as I’ve played with and been around. He’s a people person. He’s found his footing, and he’s going to the Hall of Fame.”

Peavy spoke highly of several Padres, including rookie manager Craig Stammen.

A straight shooter as players go, Peavy would seem well-equipped to address the Padres’ pachyderm in the room: San Diego’s deficient starting rotation is threatening to nix this team’s bid for a playoff berth and prompt a selloff by the Aug 3 trade deadline.

It would be a mistake if the whole broadcast unfolds without Peavy and his fellow former aces digging into that topic.