This week’s “MLB Sunday Leadoff” game, streaming exclusively on Peacock, features a showdown between the Dodgers and Marlins at noon ET.
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The Dodgers own MLB’s best record at 87-38 and are on pace to break their franchise record of 106 wins, which was set in 2019 and matched last season. Mookie Betts recorded his 20th career multihomer game out of the leadoff spot in the series opener Friday night, passing Alfonso Soriano for the most in Major League history. The 29-year-old went deep again on Saturday night to give him 30 this season. Betts’ career high for homers is 32, set in 2018 when he won the American League MVP Award and guided the Red Sox to their ninth World Series championship.
After missing 47 games with right elbow tendinitis, Marlins right-hander Edward Cabrera has been on a tear. In four starts this month, the 24-year-old is 2-0 and hasn’t allowed a run over 22 2/3 innings. Cabrera has 28 strikeouts and has a .110 opponents’ batting average.
Play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti will be joined in this week’s “MLB Sunday Leadoff” booth by analysts Dontrelle Willis (Dodgers analyst) and Tommy Hutton (Marlins analyst). Benetti is joined in the booth each week by local analysts from the participating teams.
Willis, a two-time All-Star and former MLB pitcher from 2003-11, played his first five seasons with the Marlins. As a rookie in ’03, Willis won the National League Rookie of the Year Award with a 14-6 record and a 3.30 ERA as he helped the Marlins win the World Series. In ’05, Willis finished second in the NL Cy Young Award voting. Willis currently serves as a Dodgers analyst on SportsNet LA and an MLB analyst for FOX Sports.
A 12-year MLB veteran, Hutton played for the Dodgers, Phillies, Blue Jays, and Expos from 1966-81. He currently serves as a Marlins analyst for Bally Sports Florida and returns to the MLB Sunday Leadoff booth after serving as an analyst on the Mets-Marlins game on June 26.
NBC Sports’ Ahmed Fareed hosts the MLB Sunday Leadoff pregame and postgame shows each week, and also serves as the in-game reporter. Former World Series champion Nick Swisher, who had a 12-year MLB career, returns to MLB Sunday Leadoff for the fifth time this season and will serve as this week’s pregame and postgame analyst alongside Fareed. Rob Friedman, aka PitchingNinja on Twitter (@PitchingNinja), will also join the pregame show to provide pitching breakdowns.
MLB Sunday Leadoff on Peacock debuted on May 8, beginning an 18-week schedule of exclusive MLB contests every Sunday morning. Peacock was also the exclusive home of the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game.
The MLB Sunday Leadoff game each week is the only game scheduled until 1:30 p.m. ET, when the rest of the day’s action will begin. The start time for each MLB Sunday Leadoff game is noon ET for the remainder of the games through Sept. 4.