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NBC Sports was a home to the first World Series broadcast in 1947, the first All-Star Game nationally broadcast in 1952, and has televised 39 World Series – more than any other network. The first Major League Baseball television broadcast was a 1939 Cincinnati Reds-Brooklyn Dodgers doubleheader on W2XBS (the precursor to WNBC-TV) in New York. The MLB Sunday Leadoff package began in 2022 with 18 exclusive Sunday morning games on Peacock, continuing NBC Sports’ storied baseball tradition. The package will include start times of 11:35 a.m. ET that day, when the remainder of the day’s schedule will begin. On each of the 19 Sundays that Peacock presents a game, it will be scheduled as the exclusive home of live MLB action until 1:35 p.m. Each game will feature NBC Sports-produced pre- and post-game shows on Peacock. ET from Citizens Bank Park, Peacock will stream an NBC Sports-produced baseball game live in 19 of 20 weeks. Prior to joining NBC Sports Bay Area, Fareed hosted MLB Network’s news and highlight show, Quick Pitch, for two years.īeginning on Sunday, April 23, with the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies hosting the Colorado Rockies at 12:05 p.m. He also served as an anchor and reporter for Giants Pregame Live and Giants Postgame Live. NBC Sports’ Ahmed Fareed will reprise his MLB Sunday Leadoff role as the pre- and post-game host and in-game reporter this season.įareed, who has served as a host and reporter on a variety of properties across NBC Sports’ portfolio since 2019, has an extensive baseball background, serving as a host and reporter for NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California from 2013-18, covering MLB’s San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s. Game analysis in the MLB Sunday Leadoff booth each week will be provided by announcers from the participating teams. ET and the Los Angeles Angels at Cleveland Guardians game on Sunday, May 14, at 11:35 a.m.

He will call the Chicago Cubs at Miami Marlins game on Sunday, April 30, at 12:05 p.m. ET, which will be presented live on Peacock and NBC, marking the second consecutive year in which the NBC broadcast network will present a live MLB game (last season’s package-opening White Sox-Red Sox game on May 8, 2022).Ĭhris Vosters, NBC Sports Chicago’s voice of the Chicago Blackhawks, has called events for NBC Sports for the past three Olympic Games as well as select Minnesota Twins games on Bally Sports North last season. Vasgersian, who served as the play-by-play voice of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball for four seasons (2018-21), will also call the Atlanta Braves hosting the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, May 7, at 11:35 a.m. Matt Vasgersian, the play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Angels and studio host for MLB Network, will call the MLB Sunday Leadoff season opener from Philadelphia’s Citizen Bank Park (Sunday, April 23, 12:05 p.m. “We’re excited to have Brendan rejoin NBC Sports this summer and look forward to pairing him with local analysts each week in the booth as we continue to provide coverage with local flavor and in-depth knowledge of the competing teams,” said Sam Flood, NBC Sports Executive Producer. Burke will call his first MLB Sunday Leadoff game on May 21, following his NHL Playoff assignments. Beginning with NBC Sports in 2017, he served as a play-by-play voice of NHL and Premier Lacrosse League coverage and called events at two Olympics (hockey at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and rowing and canoeing during the Tokyo Olympics). Burke called select New York Yankees games on WFAN radio last season, and also served as play-by-play announcer for multiple Minor League Baseball teams earlier in his career. ET exclusively on Peacock.īurke currently serves as the television voice of the New York Islanders on MSG Networks and as a play-by-play commentator on NHL on TNT games. MLB Sunday Leadoff, Peacock’s exclusive package of Sunday morning Major League Baseball games, debuts its slate of 19 live games on Sunday, April 23, with the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies hosting the Colorado Rockies at 12:05 p.m.

– Ap– Play-by-play announcer Brendan Burke will serve as the voice of MLB Sunday Leadoff on Peacock this season, it was announced today. ET as the Defending National League Champion Phillies Host Rockies Exclusively on Peacock MLB Sunday Leadoff Begins Sunday, April 23, at 12:05 p.m. Matt Vasgersian to Call Peacock MLB Sunday Leadoff Opener on April 23 and Peacock/NBC Simulcast on May 7Ĭhris Vosters to Call Two Games with Burke on AssignmentĪhmed Fareed Returns to MLB Sunday Leadoff as Host and In-Game Reporter Burke will be Joined in Booth by Analysts from Participating Teams of Each Week’s Game

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