The 2023 ESPN Sunday Night Baseball schedule added the May 7 series finale between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. First pitch at Petco Park is now set for 4:08 p.m. PT.
Karl Ravech will handle play-by-play duties, and the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast crew will include analysts David Cone and Eduardo Perez, along with reporter Buster Olney. SportsNet LA will not have its own coverage of the game.
Sunday Night Baseball additionally will be available in Spanish on ESPN Deportes, with Ernesto Jerez, Luis Alfredo Álvarez, Guillermo Celis and Enrique Rojas providing commentary and analysis.
“Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown” precedes Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN with one-hour pregame shows at 3 p.m. PT every week. All Sunday Night Baseball games and shows will be available to stream via the ESPN App.
ESPN has announced Sunday Night Baseball telecasts into August of this season, and the Dodgers previously were selected for their June 4 game against the New York Yankees at Dodger Stadium.
As for the weekend set between the Dodgers and Padres, it’s their first matchup since Game 4 of the 2022 National League Division Series.
Although the Dodgers went 14-5 against the Padres last season, they managed just one win in the playoffs before being eliminated. Padres starter Joe Musgrove deemed it the beginning of some change within the NL West.
Some Padres players believed the Dodgers’ success in their head-to-head meetings during the regular season led to overconfidence come the NLDS.
“I didn’t feel that way,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said days after the team’s season ended in disappointment.
“In watching them prepare and go about it, I did not feel that way. I think it’s easy and kind of a lazy narrative after the fact to say that was the case. And maybe it was, and I was too close to it. I don’t know. But it did not land with me in that way at all.”
Clayton Kershaw hopes Dodgers learn from 2022 NLDS
When discussing his decision to re-sign with the Dodgers on another one-year contract, Kershaw expressed hope that losing to the Padres in the NLDS would lead to more motivation for the clubhouse.
“When you have a regular season like we did, obviously our expectations were a lot higher. With that said, playoffs are pretty much a crapshoot sometimes. It’s not always once you get in there, you’re going to win just because you think you have the best team on paper,” he said.
“That one hurt. It hurt. It was no fun to lose. It was no fun to lose to the Padres. So hopefully all of us spend a little time reflecting on what went wrong, what we want to do better and how we can make this team get over the hump. Because obviously the talent is there. We have the pieces. It’s just a matter of being a better team and how to do that.
“I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and hopefully guys have been thinking about it a lot. Hopefully we don’t have too much of a different team, but who knows what’s going to happen with J.T. and Belli. I’ll obviously be super sad to see those guys go if that’s what ends up happening. We’ll have to figure it out with the pieces we have.”
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