The Red Sox will host the St. Louis Cardinals on April 6 at 7 p.m. in their first Sunday home game of the 2025 season. It’s the second game in ESPN’s slate of Sunday Night Baseball, with the Atlanta Braves taking on the San Diego Padres on March 30 on opening weekend.

The Yankees will face their crosstown rivals, the New York Mets, in their first Sunday Night Baseball appearance on May 18. It will be the finale of a three-game series which will bring former Yankees’ right fielder Juan Soto back to the Bronx for the first time since he spurned them for the Mets. It is part of ESPN’s “Rivalry Week.”

ESPN, in conjunction with Major League Baseball, announced its 2025 early-season Sunday Night Baseball schedule on Wednesday. The 36th season of ESPN’s exclusive Major League Baseball game of the week begins on March 30 when the San Diego Padres and Fernando Tatís Jr.

ESPN released its initial Sunday Night Baseball schedule for 2025 (through mid-July, plus the August 18 Little League Classic), and the Mets are featured three times thus far: May 18th vs the Yankees at Yankee Stadium,

Baseball” schedule for the first half of the 2025 season includes the Los Angeles Dodgers featured in five of the games. In addition, they could be schedule for more later in the year, as happened multiple times in 2024.