Late Thursday afternoon, the Cubs announced that the game Sunday, August 12 at Wrigley Field will be ESPN’s featured Sunday Night Baseball game and it will begin at 7:05 p.m. CT. The game had previously been listed as “TBD” on schedules.
This will be the second Sunday night game at Wrigley Field this year; the Giants/Cubs game May 27 was also ESPN’s featured game. It will be the fourth time for the Cubs on Sunday Night Baseball in 2018; they were the featured game May 6 at St. Louis and will also be on Sunday Night Baseball this coming Sunday, July 29, also against the Cardinals at Busch Stadium.