July 9, 2024
UPDATE
Apple and Main League Baseball announce August “Friday Night time Baseball” schedule
Apple and Main League Baseball (MLB) at this time introduced the August recreation schedule for “Friday Night time Baseball,” a weekly doubleheader out there to Apple TV+ subscribers on Fridays all through the 2024 common season. Followers in 60 international locations and areas can get pleasure from 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 will probably 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 crew in partnership with Apple’s dwell sports activities manufacturing crew, 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 environment. Followers within the U.S. and Canada have the choice to take heed 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 observe 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 velocity and ease, the app’s personalised expertise places customers’ favourite leagues and groups entrance and heart, that includes an easy-to-use interface designed by Apple.
Followers within the U.S. can benefit from the MLB Massive 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 may also entry further MLB programming at no cost within the Apple TV app, together with condensed recreation recaps after the completion of the dwell “Friday Night time Baseball” broadcasts every week, basic video games, highlights and interviews, and extra.
This season, DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS is once more the unique nationwide house of “Friday Night time Baseball” for business 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 present satellite tv for pc tools.
In Apple Information, followers can simply observe the league and their favourite groups within the MLB feed, and watch personalised MLB highlights proper within the Information app. Every Friday, followers may also entry a curated group of essentially the most thrilling tales from across the league, and faucet to observe “Friday Night time Baseball” instantly 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 basic 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 out there 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 bins, together with Sky Q, SK Broadband, and Comcast Xfinity. Extra info is out there at apple.com/apple-tv-app. Followers can observe the motion of each recreation this MLB season proper on their iPhone Lock Display with Reside 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 out there for $9.99 (U.S.) per thirty days with a seven-day free trial. For a restricted time, eligible prospects who buy and activate a brand new Apple gadget can get pleasure from three months of Apple TV+ at no cost.
