Like an aspiring butcher trying to get a dollar of meat from a 10 cent steak, Major League Baseball Announced on Thursday that it’s getting a little more fix on its TV broadcast rights, renewing its four-season “MLB Match of the Week Live on YouTube” deal with Alphabet properties. But don’t like other transactions that happened recentlyThese streaming exclusives will be viewed for free and with no local interrupt limits.
Starting with a game against the Rockies-Nats on May 5 (first pitch 3:10 ET), YouTube will once again be home to more than a dozen MLB games over the course of the 2022 season. Broadcaster Scott Braun and Yonder Alonso returns to call the play. The full lineup is as follows:
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Washington Nationals in Colorado Rockies – Thursday, May 5 at 3:10 ET
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Milwaukee Brewers at the Cincinnati Reds – Wednesday, May 11 at 12:35 PM ET
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Arizona Diamondbacks at the Chicago Cubs – Friday, May 20 at 2:20 ET
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The Detroit Tigers at the Minnesota Twins – Wednesday, May 25 at 1:10 p.m. ET
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Kansas City Royals at Cleveland Guardians – Wednesday, June 1 at 1:10 p.m. ET
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Toronto Blue Jays at Kansas City Royals – Wednesday, June 8 at 2:10 ET
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Minnesota Twins at the Seattle Mariners – Wednesday, June 15 at 4:10 am ET
YouTubeTV subscribers will be able to find these games on the service’s dedicated Game of the Week channel while everyone else will see them on YouTube. MLB YouTube page. Fans will be able to interact with the broadcasts via live chat, “with commentary on the game from MLB super-fan YouTube creators”, as well as in-game polls and For subscribers, get access to real-time game stats.
The MLB 2022 season features multiple exclusive broadcast deals. In addition to the standard local shutdown rules, 18 Sunday games will only be available with a $10 a month Peacock subscription, AppleTV+ ($6 a month) get Doubleheaders Friday, and ESPN covers Sunday Night Baseball. There’s also MLB.TV that has the rights to everything but is much more expensive than its alternatives, at least until the All-Star break.
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