Friday Night Baseball Will Continue on Apple TV

Apple TV subscribers will continue to have access to two Friday Night Major League Baseball games for the 2026 to 2028 seasons, Major League Baseball said today.

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There were rumors that Apple would both abandon and expand MLB coverage, but that information turned out to be inaccurate. Apple's deal with MLB remains the same, despite new rights agreements that MLB has established with Netflix, ESPN, and NBCUniversal.

Sunday Night Baseball, Sunday Leadoff, and the Wild Card Series will move from ESPN to NBC. Netflix will air the T-Mobile Home Run Derby and special games that will include the 2026 Field of Dreams Game and the World Baseball Classic in Japan. ESPN will have rights to a national midweek game package and will sell MLB.TV, MLB's out-of-market streaming service.

Fox will air the All-Star Game and regular season games, along with the World Series, League Championship Series and Division Series. TBS will air LCS and Division Series telecasts, along with regular season games on Tuesday nights.

Apple has offered Friday Night Baseball since 2022, providing a doubleheader with pregame and postgame analysis. Friday Night Baseball is free to ‌Apple TV‌ subscribers.

Apple will have access to Friday night games through 2028 due to a 7-year deal that was established in 2022. The 2026 season will begin on March 25, 2026, with Apple's first games to air on Friday, March 27.

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Top Rated Comments

sjsharksfan12 Avatar
7 weeks ago
Good news. Apple has done better since its start and the production values are great.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tyrnnsrs Avatar
7 weeks ago
What a mess the MLB has made... spreading coverage of all of the games out across like 6 different providers?
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HiVolt Avatar
7 weeks ago

Good news. Apple has done better since its start and the production values are great.
I disagree, from the standpoint of my home team the Blue Jays. They know nothing about the team or its history, and the googled tidbits they try to sprinkle during the game are often ridiculous or just stupid.

Baseball is a regional sport. They should be covered by regional broadcast teams that know their teams best.

For us Canadians, we have one broadcast cover the team for all the games, even the playoffs. All the Jays games were national games in Canada until this crap came along. I really don't know why they are forcing this crap on us. Nobody in the US gives a crap against the Jays.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DEMinSoCAL Avatar
7 weeks ago

I disagree, from the standpoint of my home team the Blue Jays. They know nothing about the team or its history, and the googled tidbits they try to sprinkle during the game are often ridiculous or just stupid.

Baseball is a regional sport. They should be covered by regional broadcast teams that know their teams best.

For us Canadians, we have one broadcast cover the team for all the games, even the playoffs. All the Jays games were national games in Canada until this crap came along. I really don't know why they are forcing this crap on us. Nobody in the US gives a crap against the Jays.
Sports are really screwed up at the expense of the viewers. For NHL, we subscribe to EPSN now to see all the games...all the games EXCEPT the ones they choose to only show on TNT or Amazon Prime or some other random place we don't have access to.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
WWP99 Avatar
7 weeks ago
Unfortunate. Apple's play-by-play team are unlistenable.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Ethan.Albano Avatar
7 weeks ago

Is that two Friday night games out of many?
I believe they meant to say that Apple TV will continue to broadcast the double headers every Friday, as they have been doing, not that it is just 2 games for the whole season.

Via MLB.com: "Apple TV will continue to stream "Friday Night Baseball" doubleheaders throughout the regular season."
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)