The Little League Classic game against the Mariners is one of the three announced games.
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 four times thus far: May 18th vs the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, May 25th against the Dodgers at Citi Field, June 22nd against the Phillies, and the aforementioned Little League Classic against the Mariners in Williamsport, PA. All games are at 7pm Eastern. Both the early July 6th game and the remainder of the season are still to be announced.
With the magical 2024 season, coupled with the signing of Juan Soto, it isn’t surprising that the Mets would command some nationally televised games, especially when the Little League Classic is always broadcast nationally and the Subway Series Sunday night game has traditionally been an ESPN staple as well.
However, four ESPN games means four fewer SNY/PIX11 games, which means four less games called by Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, and Ron Darling. Fewer games from the best booth in baseball is not a good thing for Mets fans, but the spotlight being on the Mets is a sign of a cultural shift around the club that is hard to be too down on.
With the rest of the season’s Sunday nights, and the entirety of the FOX Saturday broadcasts yet to be announced, it is inevitable that the local broadcast will lose more games as well.