Cubs fans will be seeing more of Anthony Rizzo \u2014 on TV.<\/p>\n
During its Super Bowl pregame show Sunday, NBC announced that Rizzo, Clayton Kershaw and Joey Votto will be part of its MLB coverage, which begins this season. <\/p>\n
The trio will serve as pregame analysts for NBC\u2019s coverage of the wild-card round, and they\u2019ll appear on select pregame shows for \u201cSunday Night Baseball\u201d broadcasts with hosts Bob Costas and Ahmed Fareed. The network\u2019s games will appear across NBC, NBCSN and Peacock.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited to welcome Clayton, Anthony and Joey, three stars right off the field who can provide fresh perspective on the players, teams, and everything that makes baseball special,\u201d NBC Sports executive producer and president of production Sam Flood said. \u201cWe look forward to rolling out some new concepts to take advantage of the unique insights of each analyst, beginning on Opening Day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rizzo, a three-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner, was the face of the Cubs\u2019 2016 World Series championship team, the franchise\u2019s first since 1908. He slashed .360\/.484\/.600 in that World Series.<\/p>\n
NBC is beginning a three-year deal to carry what was ESPN\u2019s baseball package, which includes Sunday night games and every wild-card series. NBC also regained the \u201cMLB Sunday Leadoff\u201d package of early Sunday games, which will be exclusive to streaming service Peacock. The network\u2019s coverage will debut on Opening Day, March 26, with Pirates-Mets at noon and Diamondbacks-Dodgers at 7 p.m., when the Dodgers will raise their World Series banner.<\/p>\n
Rizzo\u2019s Cubs are scheduled for two appearances on Sunday nights: May 31 at the Cardinals and June 7 against the Giants. They also are part of a Sunday doubleheader Aug. 3 with a 2 p.m. game against the Reds. All three games will air on NBC and Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cubs fans will be seeing more of Anthony Rizzo \u2014 on TV. During its Super Bowl pregame show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-457039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}