MLB Opening Day set
MLB Opening Day is set for Thursday, March 26, 2026 with 11 games on the slate and the Dodgers slated to begin their title defense. (sportpreferred.com) Broadcasts shift big this year — MLB returns to NBC and Peacock for Opening Day through the postseason — and the Brewers will air 10 games over-the-air, including Opening Day, for local fans. ( )
Yoshinobu Yamamoto will take the ball for Los Angeles as the club’s designated season opener, marking his second straight Opening Day assignment and his first Opening Day start at Dodger Stadium. (mlb.com) The Dodgers’ home opponent that night is the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the club will raise its 2025 championship banner before the primetime matchup that NBC/Peacock plans to carry as its sole primetime game that evening. (mlb.com) NBC’s broadcast plan includes an Opening Day doubleheader for its Peacock/NBC window, opening with the Paul Skenes-led Pittsburgh Pirates facing the Juan Soto-era New York Mets in an early telecast before the Dodgers’ primetime game. (nbcsports.com) The league’s season will actually begin a night earlier with a standalone “Opening Night” presentation — the New York Yankees at the San Francisco Giants — which will stream live on Netflix in what MLB and Netflix are billing as the service’s first live MLB broadcast. (mlb.com) In Milwaukee, WITI (FOX 6) will simulcast 10 Brewers telecasts statewide as part of a renewed partnership with Good Karma Brands, starting with the club’s home opener against the Chicago White Sox (1:10 p.m. CT) and continuing with a slate that includes two Tuesday-night road simulcasts versus the Cubs. (onmilwaukee.com) The network shuffle stems from MLB’s three-year media-rights pact announced in November 2025 that returns exclusive marquee windows to NBC and Peacock — the deal specifically carves out Sunday Night Baseball, MLB Sunday Leadoff, an Opening Day showcase and the entire postseason Wild Card round for NBCUniversal. (nbcuniversal.com)
