The Brewers are all over the early ESPN Sunday Night Baseball schedule in 2020

JR Radcliffe | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee Brewers fan base will frequently decry the lack of national attention for its small-market rooting interest, but 2020 will not lack for Milwaukee baseball exposure. The team will appear on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball three times in the first six weeks of the season.

The first 16 games of the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball schedule for 2020. pic.twitter.com/5T1hdie5w6 — Maury Brown (@BizballMaury) December 9, 2019

On Monday, ESPN announced its Sunday Night Baseball docket through Aug. 23, with playoff chases sure to inform the final month-plus of scheduling.

The 2019 World Series-champion Washington Nationals, curiously, do not appear on the schedule anywhere.

We already knew the Brewers would appear on the first Sunday Night Baseball broadcast of the year against the Chicago Cubs on March 29 at Miller Park, meeting the Cubs in the weekly showcase game for a second straight year. Last year, Milwaukee appeared on Sunday Night Baseball for the first time since 2013.

What we didn't know is that the Brewers would get back on ESPN's airwaves twice more before the weather even gets warm.

The Brewers will face the Mets in New York on April 19 and then host the Cardinals on May 3, both with 6 p.m. first pitches according to local clocks.

The season officially kicks off Thursday, March 26, the earliest-ever opening date for the domestic portion of the MLB schedule. Then, the Brewers will take a day off Friday before battling the Cubs with a 6:10 p.m. CDT contest Saturday and the 6 p.m. CDT Sunday night game to follow. The Brewers will host St. Louis the next day.

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