Red Sox slated to play 5 games on NBC, Peacock in 2026

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Boston will host the Yankees at Fenway Park in a Sunday Night Baseball contest on June 28.

By Kaley Brown

January 9, 2026 | 6:21 PM

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The Red Sox are set to play several nationally-televised, primetime games in 2026 as Major League Baseball returns to NBC/Peacock.

NBCUniversal took over ESPN’s rights to Sunday Night Baseball and the wild-card round after the 2025 season, and agreed to a short-term broadcast and streaming deal with MLB through 2028. 2026 will mark NBC’s first full-time season broadcasting MLB games since 2000.

This year won’t be the first time a NBC entity broadcast a Red Sox game in recent memory, though. Peacock aired a game between Boston and the Chicago White Sox on May 8, 2022, at 11:30 a.m.

Here is Boston’s full 2026 Sunday Night Baseball and special event schedule, featuring information about when and how to tune in.

– Sunday, June 14 at 7 p.m. Eastern Time: Texas Rangers at Boston Red Sox on NBC and Peacock

– Sunday, June 28 at 7 p.m. ET: New York Yankees at Boston Red Sox on NBC and Peacock

– Sunday, July 5 at 9:30 p.m. ET (“Star-Spangled Sunday”): Boston Red Sox at Los Angeles Angels, exclusively on Peacock

– Sunday, Aug. 2 at 7 p.m. ET: Boston Red Sox at Los Angeles Dodgers on NBC and Peacock

– Sunday, Aug. 23 at 3 p.m. ET: San Francisco Giants at Boston Red Sox on NBC and Peacock

Four games will be nationally televised on NBC, as well as available to watch on Peacock, which is NBC’s subscription streaming service.

July 5’s “Star-Spangled Sunday” game will not be broadcast on NBC, according to NBC Sports. The contest will appear exclusively on Peacock, which requires a subscription.

There is currently no free trial option; three subscription tiers exist: Select (watch TV with ads for $7.99 per month), Premium (watch TV, movies, sports, and more with ads for $10.99 per month), and Premium Plus (watch TV, movies, sports, and more with no ads for $16.99 per month).

The Red Sox’ final regular-season NBC/Peacock game (against the Giants on Aug. 23) is slated to wrap up Rafael Devers’s first series as a visitor at Fenway Park. San Francisco will come to Boston from Aug. 21-23 for the first time since trading for Devers from the Red Sox last June.

Additionally, NBC/Peacock will have “early first-round coverage” of the MLB Draft this year, scheduled for Saturday, July 11 at 1:30 p.m. ET. The network will also air the All-Star Futures Game on Sunday, July 12 at noon ET.

Kaley Brown

Sports producer

Kaley Brown is a sports producer for Boston.com, where she covers the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Red Sox.