MLB: today’s TV lineup
Three headline Week‑3 matchups on April 12 are slotted for national broadcast: Giants at Orioles at 1:30 PHT on MLBN, Rangers at Dodgers at 4:00 PHT on MLBN, and Guardians at Braves at 7:00 on NBC. ( ) Fans have been sharing the schedule across social channels ahead of Sunday’s national‑broadcast windows. (x.com)
Major League Baseball’s national Sunday windows on April 12 center on three games, with two afternoon slots on MLB Network and a prime-time game on NBC and Peacock. (mlb.com, mlb.com, espn.com) The official league schedule lists San Francisco at Baltimore at 1:35 p.m. Eastern, Texas at Los Angeles Dodgers at 4:10 p.m. Eastern, and Cleveland at Atlanta at 7:20 p.m. Eastern. ESPN’s day-by-day schedule shows the Braves-Guardians game on NBC and Peacock. (mlb.com, espn.com) For viewers in the Philippines, those first pitches convert to 1:35 a.m., 4:10 a.m., and 7:20 a.m. on Monday, April 13, because the Philippines is 12 hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Daylight Time. (espn.com, timeanddate.com) The NBC game is part of a new media-rights package that moved Sunday Night Baseball away from ESPN for the 2026 season. Major League Baseball said the Sunday showcase now streams on Peacock every week, with selected games also airing on NBC. (mlb.com, nbcuniversal.com) April 12 is the first Sunday Night Baseball telecast on the NBC broadcast network under that deal. MLB’s own announcement said the April 12 Braves-Guardians matchup would be the first Sunday night game carried on NBC, after the opening March 29 game streamed on Peacock. (mlb.com, nbc.com) The afternoon windows matter because MLB Network still fills a separate national role even as NBC and Peacock add exclusive Sunday packages. MLB Network’s schedule page says the channel carries live games alongside studio programming, and the league’s daily schedule marks national windows separately from local regional telecasts. (mlb.com, mlb.com) The matchups also put several marquee names into those windows. ESPN’s schedule lists Jacob deGrom against Roki Sasaki for Rangers-Dodgers and Tanner Bibee against Chris Sale for Guardians-Braves, while the MLB schedule had Logan Webb lined up for San Francisco’s series in Baltimore. (espn.com, mlb.com) NBC and Peacock’s baseball package runs beyond Sunday nights. NBCUniversal said the three-year agreement includes Sunday Leadoff games, the entire Wild Card round, and a daily out-of-market game on Peacock during the regular season. (nbcuniversal.com, nbcsports.com) By Sunday night in the United States, the new setup gets its clearest test yet: MLB Network handles the daytime national windows, and NBC takes over the league’s biggest standalone slot. (mlb.com, mlb.com)
