SportsNet LA to Broadcast 20 Dodgers Minor League Games, Including 12 Oklahoma City Comets Telecasts

Ryan Ward, the reigning Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player who led all of minor-league baseball with 36 home runs and 122 RBI last season, headlines a SportsNet LA broadcast package that will deliver 12 Oklahoma City Comets telecasts to Dodgers viewers in 2026. The network announced the 20-game minor-league slate on March 30, adding eight Double-A Tulsa Drillers games to complete the schedule.

The Comets' broadcast run opened March 29 with Oklahoma City hosting the Albuquerque Isotopes and continues with nine more appearances through the fall: April 9 vs. Round Rock, April 15 vs. Tulsa, April 25 vs. Tacoma, May 7 vs. Salt Lake, May 21 and 23 vs. Reno, June 18 vs. Sacramento, August 2 at Las Vegas, and September 10 against Sugar Land. Tulsa's eight telecasts are spread across the spring and summer.

Every game in the package lands on either a Dodgers off-day or a date when the major-league club appears exclusively on national television, ensuring SportsNet LA viewers face no competing Dodgers feed. Most dates fall midweek, a deliberate strategy to fill windows that would otherwise go dark for the network while avoiding head-to-head competition with regional MLB broadcasts.

Beyond Ward, who holds multiple franchise records in Bricktown-era history and sits on the Dodgers' 40-man roster, Oklahoma City opened 2026 with three Baseball America-ranked organizational prospects: outfielder Zach Ehrhard (No. 21), outfielder James Tibbs III (No. 26), and defensive shortstop Noah Miller (No. 23). Ehrhard and Tibbs, acquired from Boston in the Dustin May trade last July, are considered the most major-league-ready of the Dodgers' crowded outfield prospect group. Any of the four could be in Los Angeles before the broadcast slate finishes its run.

The 20-game package builds on a broader expansion of minor-league media rights that has accelerated across the sport in recent seasons. SportsNet LA also reached a new carriage agreement with FuboTV ahead of 2026, widening the potential audience for these Comets telecasts beyond the traditional cable footprint. For prospect trackers monitoring the Dodgers' pipeline, that combination of more games and wider distribution means fewer excuses to miss a Ward at-bat or an Ehrhard breakout before either reaches Chavez Ravine.