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Dodgers News: ESPN Adds June 26 Game Against Pirates For Sunday Night Baseball Telecast

Matthew Moreno
2 Min Read
Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports

The June 26 game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park was picked up by ESPN for their weekly Sunday Night Baseball telecast. The weekly matchups will be available on ESPN, ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Deportes Radio and WatchESPN,

All Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts are nationally televised and not subject to local blackouts. Play-by-play man Dan Shulman is joined this season by analysts Jessica Mendoza and Aaron Boone, with Buster Olney returning in his role as reporter.

The June 26 contest, now slated for a 5:08 p.m. PT start, is the second of the four-game series that will be nationally televised.

FOX will exclusively broadcast the Saturday, June 25 game, with first pitch scheduled for 4:15 p.m. PT. The four-game set concludes Monday, in a 9:35 a.m. PT start.

The Dodgers were swept in a three-game series at PNC Park last August, losing two of the three games by one run.

Los Angeles then dropped two of three to Pittsburgh at Dodger Stadium in mid-September.

The Dodgers are 1-1 as part of a Sunday Night Baseball telecast, beating the San Francisco Giants on April 17, and losing May 15 to the St. Louis Cardinals. Both games were played at Chavez Ravine.

On top of now carrying the game against the Pirates for their weekly telecast, ESPN is already slated to broadcast the Dodgers’ May 29 game against the New York Mets at Citi Field, and their June 12 matchup with the Giants at AT&T Park.

The network will add more games to their Sunday Night schedule as the season progresses.

Matthew Moreno is a journalist from Whittier, Calif., who is a credentialed reporter and is currently the Managing Editor of DodgerBlue.com and LakersNation.com. In addition to covering Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angels Lakers, Matthew has a strong passion for keeping up to date with the sneakerhead culture. It began with Michael Jordan and Air Jordan shoes, and has carried over to Kobe Bryant's signature line with Nike. Matthew previously was the lead editor and digital strategist at Dodgers Nation, and the co-editor and lead writer at Reign of Troy, where he covered USC Trojans Football. Matthew graduated from California State Long Beach University with a major in journalism and minor in communications. Contact: matt@mediumlargela.com