Apple and Main League Baseball announce July “Friday Night time Baseball” schedule
June 5, 2024
UPDATE
Apple and Main League Baseball announce July “Friday Night time Baseball” schedule
Apple and Main League Baseball (MLB) at this time introduced the July 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. Recreation assignments for announcers might be shared on a weekly foundation.
Lauren Gardner hosts reside pre- and postgame protection, together with former MLB participant and analyst Xavier Scruggs, and baseball journalist Russell Dorsey. On July 26, the “Friday Night time Baseball” pregame present previewing the Rangers vs. Blue Jays and Dodgers vs. Astros video games might be hosted reside from Minute Maid Park in Houston, that includes unique participant interviews and extra.
“Friday Night time Baseball” is produced by MLB Community’s Emmy Award-winning manufacturing group in partnership with Apple’s reside sports activities manufacturing group, bringing viewers an unparalleled viewing expertise. Every recreation options state-of-the-art cameras to current vivid live-action photographs, together with immersive sound in 5.1 with Spatial Audio enabled. “Friday Night time Baseball” makes use of drone cameras for stunning aerial stadium photographs, 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 provides sports activities followers entry to real-time scores, stats, and extra.2 Designed for velocity and ease, the app’s customized 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 Large Inning whip-around present that includes reside 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 Every day Recap, and MLB This Week. Followers also can entry further MLB programming at no cost within the Apple TV app, together with condensed recreation recaps after the completion of the reside “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 dwelling 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, lodge lounges, retail retailers, and different venues all through the common season on present 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 also can 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 be out there on choose sensible TVs, together with Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sony, TCL, VIZIO, and others; Amazon Hearth TV and Roku gadgets; 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 accessible at apple.com/apple-tv-app. Followers can comply with the motion of each recreation this MLB season proper on their iPhone Lock Display screen with Dwell Actions.3 And with the multiview function on Apple TV 4K gadgets 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 reside exhibits.4
July “Friday Night time Baseball” Schedule on Apple TV+
Friday, July 5
Philadelphia Phillies at Atlanta Braves
7 p.m. ET
Detroit Tigers at Cincinnati Reds
7 p.m. ET
Friday, July 12
Cleveland Guardians at Tampa Bay Rays
6:30 p.m. ET
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals
8 p.m. ET
Friday, July 19
Detroit Tigers at Toronto Blue Jays
7 p.m. ET
San Diego Padres at Cleveland Guardians
7 p.m. ET
Friday, July 26
Los Angeles Dodgers at Houston Astros
8 p.m. ET
Texas Rangers at Toronto Blue Jays
7 p.m. ET
Pricing and Availability
Apple TV+ is accessible for $9.99 (U.S.) per 30 days with a seven-day free trial. For a restricted time, eligible clients who buy and activate a brand new Apple machine can get pleasure from three months of Apple TV+ at no cost.
- Radio broadcasts for the Los Angeles Angels can be found just for the group’s dwelling video games. In Canada, radio broadcasts can be found just for Toronto Blue Jays dwelling video games.
- Apple Sports activities is free to obtain for customers within the U.S., the U.Okay, and Canada, and is accessible for all iPhone fashions working iOS 17.2 or later.
- Dwell Actions is supported on iOS 16.1 and later.
- Multiview is supported on iPad (seventh technology) or later.
