ESPN has announced their television schedule for the first week of the 2019 Major League Baseball season, and two Los Angeles Dodgers games will be featured as part of their programming.
The Dodgers are opening the season at Dodger Stadium against the Arizona Diamondbacks with a four-game series that begins on Thursday, March 28.
They then welcome the rival San Francisco Giants to town for a three-game series beginning Monday, April 1. The first game of that series will be on ESPN as a part of a quadruple-header. It will be the final of the four games and will start a 7 p.m. PT.
After the conclusion of that series, the Dodgers will then head out on their first round trip of the season, which begins with a three-game series against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field over the weekend of April 5-7.
The final game of that series will be featured on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball with a special start time of 5:30 p.m. PT.
In 2018, the Dodgers got off to a slow start to the season as through the first month and a half they were just 16-26. They wound up rebounding to win their sixth straight National League West division title, although it took Game 163 as they defeated the Rockies in a tiebreaker at Dodger Stadium.
Los Angeles advanced to the World Series for the second straight year, but they were defeated by the Boston Red Sox so they will be going into the 2019 season on a mission to get back there and finally win it for the first time since 1988.
Facing their three biggest division rivals to begin the season will not be easy, but it will give the Dodgers an opportunity to start off on the right foot, which wasn’t the case a season ago.
