August 7, 2024
UPDATE
Apple, Main League Baseball announce September “Friday Evening Baseball” schedule
Apple and Main League Baseball (MLB) at present introduced the September sport schedule for “Friday Evening Baseball,” a weekly doubleheader accessible 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.
September “Friday Evening Baseball” Schedule on Apple TV+
Friday, September 6
Minnesota Twins at Kansas Metropolis Royals
8 p.m. ET
San Francisco Giants at San Diego Padres
9:30 p.m. ET
Friday, September 13
Los Angeles Dodgers at Atlanta Braves
7 p.m. ET
Boston Crimson Sox at New York Yankees
7 p.m. ET
Friday, September 20
Detroit Tigers at Baltimore Orioles
7 p.m. ET
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets
7 p.m. ET
“Friday Evening 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 reside pregame protection, together with former MLB participant and analyst Xavier Scruggs, and baseball journalist Russell Dorsey. On September 13, the “Friday Evening Baseball” pregame present previewing the Crimson Sox vs. Yankees and Dodgers vs Braves video games can be hosted reside from Yankee Stadium, that includes unique participant interviews and extra.
“Friday Evening Baseball” is produced by MLB Community’s Emmy Award-winning manufacturing crew in partnership with Apple’s reside sports activities manufacturing crew, bringing viewers an unparalleled viewing expertise. Every sport options state-of-the-art cameras to current vivid live-action pictures, together with immersive sound in 5.1 with Spatial Audio enabled. “Friday Evening Baseball” makes use of drone cameras for lovely 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 take heed to the audio of the house and away groups’ native radio broadcasts throughout “Friday Evening 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 provides sports activities followers entry to real-time scores, stats, and extra.2 Designed for pace and ease, the app’s personalised 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 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 can even entry extra MLB programming without cost within the Apple TV app, together with condensed sport recaps after the completion of the reside “Friday Evening Baseball” broadcasts every week, basic video games, highlights and interviews, and extra.
This season, DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS is once more the unique nationwide residence of “Friday Evening 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 outlets, and different venues all through the common season on present satellite tv for pc gear.
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 can even entry a curated group of essentially the most thrilling tales from across the league, and faucet to observe “Friday Evening Baseball” straight 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 Evening 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 accessible on choose good 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 data is offered at apple.com/apple-tv-app. Followers can observe the motion of each sport this MLB season proper on their iPhone Lock Display with Reside Actions.3 And with the multiview characteristic on Apple TV 4K gadgets and iPad, followers can watch as much as 4 simultaneous streams, together with “Friday Evening Baseball” video games, Main League Soccer matches, and choose MLS and MLB reside exhibits.4
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 clients who buy and activate a brand new Apple gadget can get pleasure from three months of Apple TV+ without cost.
- Radio broadcasts for the Los Angeles Angels can be found just for the crew’s residence video games. In Canada, radio broadcasts can be found just for Toronto Blue Jays residence video games.
- Apple Sports activities is free to obtain for customers within the U.S., the U.Okay, and Canada, and is offered for all iPhone fashions operating iOS 17.2 or later.
- Reside Actions is supported on iOS 16.1 and later.
- Multiview is supported on iPad (seventh era) or later.
