ESPN Sunday Night Baseball: Dodgers-Pirates Aug. 9; Giants-Pirates Aug 23; Cubs-Dodgers Aug. 30

ESPN announced today it has made its game selections for the Aug. 9, Aug. 23 and Aug. 30 editions of Sunday Night Baseball presented by Taco Bell. On Aug. 9, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw will visit the Pittsburgh Pirates and Andrew McCutchen at PNC Park. Returning to PNC Park, the Pirates will host the San Francisco Giants and Madison Bumgarner on Aug. 23. On Aug. 30, the Dodgers will host the Chicago Cubs and Kris Bryant at Dodger Stadium.

All Sunday Night Baseball presented by Taco Bell telecasts start at 8 p.m. ET and are also available on ESPN Radio, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Deportes Radio and via WatchESPN.

Scheduled commentators

Dan Shulman, in his fifth year as the voice of Sunday Night Baseball, is scheduled to provide commentary for both telecasts with analysts Curt Schilling and John Kruk and reporter Buster Olney. Jon Sciambi and Chris Singleton are scheduled to describe the action for ESPN Radio.

Baseball Tonight: Sunday Night Countdown presented by Chevrolet will precede both telecasts with a one-hour, pre-game show at 7 p.m. On Aug. 9, Karl Ravech, will be joined by analyst Aaron Boone, reporter Tim Kurkjian and on-site reporter Nicole Briscoe prior to the Dodgers-Pirates game. On Aug. 30, Adnan Virk will host alongside Boone and Kurkjian for the Cubs-Dodgers matchup.

On deck – the Washington Nationals will visit the New York Mets, August 2, on Sunday Night Baseball presented by Taco Bell. Shulman will be joined by Schilling, Kruk, and Olney to call the telecast at Citi Field.

Sunday Night Baseball upcoming schedule:

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Gianina Thompson at 860-766-7022 or gianina.thompston@espn.com (@Gianina_ESPN).