The Arizona Diamondbacks were a playoff team in 2011, taking the NL West title with ease while stacking their lineup with talent this offseason, almost certainly coming out a stronger team in 2012.
ESPN's schedule makers must have forgotten all about that.
The Sunday Night Baseball schedule was announced on Wednesday, and somehow the D-backs were left completely off the board, joining the Milwaukee Brewers as the only only team to get shunned by ESPN. Conversely, the Dodgers got themselves a game, playing the St. Louis Cardinals on May 20.
Luckily there is a large gap, from July 22-September 23 to be exact, where Arizona could get lucky and get a game tossed their way by ESPN. They might wish they had sooner with the players Kirk Gibson's got assembled this season.
ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball schedule:
| Date | Teams (all telecasts at 8 p.m. ET) |
| April 8 | Chicago White Sox at Texas |
| April 15 | L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees |
| April 22 | Yankees at Boston |
| April 29 | Tampa Bay at Texas |
| May 6 | Philadelphia at Washington |
| May 13 | Angels at Texas |
| May 20 | St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers |
| May 27 | Washington at Atlanta |
| June 3-July 1 | TBD |
| July 8 | Yankees at Boston |
| July 15 | St. Louis at Cincinnati |
| July 22-Sept 23 | TBD |
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