Once again, the Atlanta Braves will get a couple slots in prime time to start the 2025 season with the potential for more games later in the year

The Red Sox will host the St. Louis Cardinals on April 6 at 7 p.m. in their first Sunday home game of the 2025 season. It’s the second game in ESPN’s slate of Sunday Night Baseball, with the Atlanta Braves taking on the San Diego Padres on March 30 on opening weekend.

While Braves fans anxiously await Alex Anthopoulos’ next move, I imagine Atlanta’s GM ponders to himself, “Guys, relax.” The club, as currently constructed, is already among the best in baseball.

As usual around this time of year, we start to get a look at which games for the upcoming baseball season are going to be nationally televised. With the Atlanta Braves having been a Postseason mainstay for the better part of a decade now,

ESPN, in conjunction with Major League Baseball, announced its 2025 early-season Sunday Night Baseball schedule on Wednesday. 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.

Baseball” schedule for the first half of the 2025 season includes the Los Angeles Dodgers featured in five of the games. In addition, they could be schedule for more later in the year, as happened multiple times in 2024.