July 9, 2024
UPDATE
Apple and Main League Baseball announce August “Friday Night time Baseball” schedule
Apple and Main League Baseball (MLB) as we speak introduced the August recreation schedule for “Friday Night time Baseball,” a weekly doubleheader obtainable to Apple TV+ subscribers on Fridays all through the 2024 common season. Followers in 60 nations and areas can take pleasure in two marquee matchups over 26 weeks with no native broadcast restrictions.
“Friday Night time Baseball” options an distinctive group of broadcast expertise within the announcer cubicles, together with Wayne Randazzo (play-by-play), Dontrelle Willis (analyst), Heidi Watney (sideline reporter), Alex Faust (play-by-play), Ryan Spilborghs (analyst), and Tricia Whitaker (sideline reporter). Ted Barrett, Brian Gorman, and Dale Scott — all former MLB umpires — break down guidelines and calls every week. Sport assignments for announcers can be shared on a weekly foundation.
Lauren Gardner hosts dwell pre- and postgame protection, together with former MLB participant and analyst Xavier Scruggs, and baseball journalist Russell Dorsey.
“Friday Night time Baseball” is produced by MLB Community’s Emmy Award-winning manufacturing staff in partnership with Apple’s dwell sports activities manufacturing staff, bringing viewers an unparalleled viewing expertise. Every recreation options state-of-the-art cameras to current vivid live-action pictures, together with immersive sound in 5.1 with Spatial Audio enabled. “Friday Night time Baseball” makes use of drone cameras for stunning aerial stadium pictures, in addition to participant mics and field-level mics to immerse followers within the gameplay and stadium ambiance. Followers within the U.S. and Canada have the choice to hearken to the audio of the house and away groups’ native radio broadcasts throughout “Friday Night time Baseball” video games.1
In Apple Sports activities, followers can comply with MLB and their favourite MLB groups to entry full MLB stats and scores. Apple Sports activities is a brand new free app for iPhone that offers sports activities followers entry to real-time scores, stats, and extra.2 Designed for pace and ease, the app’s customized expertise places customers’ favourite leagues and groups entrance and middle, that includes an easy-to-use interface designed by Apple.
Followers within the U.S. can benefit from the MLB Large Inning whip-around present that includes dwell look-ins and in-game highlights each weeknight, and a full slate of MLB-related content material on Apple TV+, together with Countdown to First Pitch, MLB Day by day Recap, and MLB This Week. Followers can even entry extra MLB programming totally free within the Apple TV app, together with condensed recreation recaps after the completion of the dwell “Friday Night time Baseball” broadcasts every week, traditional video games, highlights and interviews, and extra.
This season, DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS is once more the unique nationwide residence of “Friday Night time Baseball” for industrial institutions within the U.S. DIRECTV delivers all of the motion to its community of greater than 300,000 eating places, bars, resort lounges, retail retailers, and different venues all through the common season on current satellite tv for pc gear.
In Apple Information, followers can simply comply with the league and their favourite groups within the MLB feed, and watch customized MLB highlights proper within the Information app. Every Friday, followers can even entry a curated group of probably the most thrilling tales from across the league, and faucet to observe “Friday Night time Baseball” immediately within the Apple TV app with a subscription to Apple TV+. In Apple Music, followers can discover unique official playlists that includes the walk-up songs from every week’s groups, in addition to a group of traditional songs celebrating baseball.
Apple TV+ subscribers can watch “Friday Night time Baseball” on the Apple TV app, which comes preinstalled on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, in addition to on-line at television.apple.com. The Apple TV app can also be obtainable on choose sensible TVs, together with Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sony, TCL, VIZIO, and others; Amazon Fireplace TV and Roku units; PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles; Chromecast with Google TV; and set-top containers, together with Sky Q, SK Broadband, and Comcast Xfinity. Extra data is offered at apple.com/apple-tv-app. Followers can comply with the motion of each recreation this MLB season proper on their iPhone Lock Display with Dwell Actions.3 And with the multiview characteristic on Apple TV 4K units and iPad, followers can watch as much as 4 simultaneous streams, together with “Friday Night time Baseball” video games, Main League Soccer matches, and choose MLS and MLB dwell reveals.4
August “Friday Night time Baseball” Schedule on Apple TV+
Friday, August 2
Kansas Metropolis Royals at Detroit Tigers
6:30 p.m. ET
Milwaukee Brewers at Washington Nationals
6:30 p.m. ET
Friday, August 9
Cleveland Guardians at Minnesota Twins
8 p.m. ET
Cincinnati Reds at Milwaukee Brewers
8 p.m. ET
Friday, August 16
Toronto Blue Jays at Chicago Cubs
2 p.m. ET
Seattle Mariners at Pittsburgh Pirates
6:30 p.m. ET
Friday, August 23
St. Louis Cardinals at Minnesota Twins
8 p.m. ET
Cincinnati Reds at Pittsburgh Pirates
6:30 p.m. ET
Friday, August 30
Seattle Mariners at Los Angeles Angels
9:30 p.m. ET
San Diego Padres at Tampa Bay Rays
6:30 p.m. ET
Pricing and Availability
Apple TV+ is offered for $9.99 (U.S.) per 30 days with a seven-day free trial. For a restricted time, eligible prospects who buy and activate a brand new Apple machine can take pleasure in three months of Apple TV+ totally free.