ESPN and Major League Baseball appeared headed for an ugly separation after the network opted out of its rights deal in February. Nine months later, it appears to be the best thing to happen to both parties.

Get started on the diamond early on Sundays with the return of MLB Sunday Leadoff, featuring 18 games with late-morning starts — 17 Peacock/NBCSN exclusives and one Peacock/ NBC simulcast – over the course of the season. The package originally premiered on Peacock for the 2022 and 2023 seasons and now returns.

The deal will give NBC exclusive rights of "Sunday Night Baseball" and the entire Wild Card round of the Postseason.

NBC, ESPN and Netflix will share tentpole events, including the Field of Dreams Game and the first round of the playoffs