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MLB 2022: How to Watch, Stream the Wild Card and Playoff Races

por Marcella Lira (2022-12-22)


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The 2022 Major League Baseball season is a marathon and as summer winds down, the leaders of the pack pull ahead. The Yankees, Astros, Mets and Dodgers have big leads in the East and West, appear to be locks for the postseason and are favorites to win their divisions. The standings are tighter in the Central, where races between the Guardians and White Sox in the American League and the Cardinals and Brewers in the National League could go down to the wire.This year the Wild Card has three berths in each league, keeping plenty of other teams in the hunt. Contenders include the Blue Jays, Mariners, Rays, Orioles and Twins in the AL and the Braves, Phillies and Padres in the NL. San Diego traded for Juan Soto at the deadline to gain a superstar, only to lose another when Fernando Tatis Jr. failed a test for performance-enhancing drugs.Baseball fans have many ways to livestream their favorite team's games for the rest of the season without subscribing to cable, but the best option for 카지노커뮤니티 one fan might not work for another. Selecting the right streaming service for watching baseball greatly depends on which team you follow and where you live. Veteran baseball streamers will note new options for 2022, including Apple TV Plus and Peacock, as well as Yankees games on Amazon Prime Video, Red Sox games on NESN 360, five more teams on Bally Sports Plus and a handful of games on YouTube. Juan Soto, one of the best hitters in baseball, was acquired at the trade deadline by San Diego Padres.
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Live TV streaming service vs. MLB.TV
There are two major ways to stream MLB games day in, day out without a cable or satellite TV subscription: Subscribe to a live TV streaming service such as DirecTV Stream or YouTube TV.Subscribe to MLB.TV.Depending on where you live, one of the major live TV streaming services could carry the channel that has your favorite team. Those channels, called regional sports networks, deliver almost all of the regular-season games live.  Most such services, however, carry only a handful of the 30 RSNs that show MLB games -- and they're typically the most expensive. DirecTV Stream carries the most RSNs, but you'll need to spring for its $90-a-month plan; its basic $70-a-month plan doesn't include RSNs. Sling TV, a service that costs $35 a month, doesn't have any RSNs for baseball. If you're a baseball fan who needs your team's RSN, a cable subscription might actually be cheaper than streaming.The other option is MLB.TV, a separate service that carries every game played by every team live. It's great for hard-core fans in general. MLB.TV costs $25 a month.The big catch with MLB.TV is the local blackout restriction: You can't watch your local team's games live. Instead, they become available about 90 minutes after the game ends. If you're a Yankees fan in the New York area, for example, you can't start to watch the Yankees game until an hour and a half after the final out. Other teams' games aren't blacked out live, which makes MLB.TV ideal for fans who want to follow one or more of the 28 or 29 teams based in other cities, aka out-of-market teams.DirecTV Stream: Best for fans of the home team Due to MLB.TV's blackout restriction, a live TV streaming service is the best bet for following your local team. Many services carry the RSN that has exclusive rights to every regular season game, but availability varies by location and service. In addition to the RSNs listed below, live TV services carry most if not all of the major national networks -- ESPN, Fox, FS1, MLB Network and TBS -- that regularly televise matchups from different teams around the league. Details are at the top of this article.Here's how the RSNs stack up on each service. RSN availability by team and streaming service


Team





Network Name





DirecTV Stream ($90)





FuboTV ($70) 





YouTube TV ($65)





Hulu with Live TV ($70)





Sling Blue ($35)
Arizona Diamondbacks





Bally Sports Arizona





Yes





No





No





No





No
Atlanta Braves





Bally Sports South





Yes





No





No





No





No
Baltimore Orioles





MASN





Yes





No





No





No





No
Boston Red Sox





NESN





Yes





Yes





No





No





No
Chicago Cubs





Marquee Sports Network





Yes





Yes





No





No





No
Chicago White Sox





NBC Sports Chicago





Yes





Yes





Yes





Yes





No


Cincinnati Reds





Bally Sports Ohio





Yes





No





No





No





No


Cleveland Indians





Bally Sports Great Lakes





Yes





No





No





No





No
Colorado Rockies





AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain





Yes





No





No





No





No


Detroit Tigers





Bally Sports Detroit





Yes





No





No





No





No
Houston Astros





AT&T SportsNet Southwest and Bally Sports Southwest





Yes





Yes (AT&T SportsNet Southwest)





No





No





No
Kansas City Royals





Bally Sports Kansas City





Yes





No





No





No





No
Los Angeles Angels





Bally Sports West





Yes





No





No





No





No
Los Angeles Dodgers





Spectrum SportsNet LA





Yes





No





No





No





No
Miami Marlins





Bally Sports Florida





Yes





No





No





No





No


Milwaukee Brewers





Bally Sports Wisconsin





Yes





No





No





No





No
Minnesota Twins





Bally Sports North





Yes





No





No





No





No
New York Mets





SportsNet NY





Yes





Yes





Yes





Yes





No
New York Yankees





YES





Yes





No





No





No





No
Oakland Athletics





NBC Sports California





Yes





Yes





Yes





Yes





No
Philadelphia Phillies





NBC Sports Philadelphia





No





Yes





Yes





Yes





No
Pittsburgh Pirates





AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh





Yes





Yes





No





No





No


San Diego Padres





Bally Sports San Diego





Yes





No





No





No





No
San Francisco Giants





NBC Sports Bay Area





Yes





Yes





Yes





Yes





No


Seattle Mariners





Root Sports Northwest





Yes





Yes





No





No





No
St. Louis Cardinals





Bally Sports Midwest





Yes





No





No





No





No
Tampa Bay Rays





Bally Sports Sun





Yes





No





No





No





No


Texas Rangers





Bally Sports Southwest





Yes





No





No





No





No
Toronto Blue Jays





SportsNet





No





No





No





No





No
Washington Nationals





MASN





Yes





No





No





No





No

Some key takeaways: The RSNs above are typically only available to local subscribers. Refer to the individual service's details below to find out if you live in a place where you can receive a particular RSN. None of the (US-based) services carry the RSN for the Toronto Blue Jays.DirecTV Stream's $90-a-month Choice package includes 28 of the 30 RSNs for baseball -- all but the Phillies and Blue Jays.It's slim pickings for the other four services. FuboTV offers 10 RSNs for baseball, while Hulu Plus Live TV and YouTube TV offer only five. Sling TV doesn't offer a single RSN.YouTube TV is the only service that carries MLB Network in its base package. The others either charge more or don't carry it at all.One other note: Fox Sports RSNs have been rebranded as Bally Sports, because the channels are no longer owned by Fox but Sinclair, which has since partnered with casino group Bally's to rename them. So, what was once Fox Sports Ohio is now Bally Sports Ohio and so on. If you're looking to watch your local team night in and night out, DirecTV Stream is your best bet. It offers by far the most RSNs of the live TV streaming services. Philadelphia and Toronto are the only MLB cities whose RSN is not offered on DirecTV Stream. FuboTV is second with 10 RSNs, giving you only a one-in-three chance of getting your local RSN to watch baseball.











DirecTV Stream ($70 or $90 a month)




Carries ESPN, Fox, FS1, MLB Network, TBS and most RSNs












DirecTV Stream is the priciest of the five major live TV streaming services, but it's also the one with the most RSNs. Its cheapest, $70-a-month Entertainment package includes ESPN, Fox, FS1 and TBS. You'll need to move up to the $90-a-month Choice plan to get MLB Network and any available RSN. You can use its channel lookup tool to see which local channels and RSNs are available in your area. 









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MLB.TV subscription: Best for out-of-market gamesMajor League Baseball's official streaming service is great for following your favorite team if you live outside its TV market. Because of the 90-minute blackout described above, however, it's much less useful for following your local home team. MLB.TV subscribers also miss games that are broadcast nationally on ESPN, Fox, FS1, MLB Network and TBS. Those games are blacked out on MLB.TV, which can be particularly irksome for fans of the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers and other big-market teams that are frequently selected for national broadcasts.






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MLB.TV ($25 per month)




Carries all out-of-market games (blackout restrictions apply)













MLB.TV normally costs $140 for the season, recently reduced to $65, but if you're a new subscriber the $25 monthly plan is a better deal at this point. As a subscriber, you can watch out-of-market games live or on demand, and the in-market (home) team with a 90-minute delay from the end of the game.With MLB.TV, you can also listen to home and away radio broadcasts. The radio broadcasts aren't subject to the blackout rule, so you can listen to home team games live. MLB.TV also includes a ton of video content, including classic games, baseball documentaries and old This Week in Baseball episodes.Even if you don't subscribe, you can still watch baseball with the MLB app. It offers one Free Game of the Day that anyone can stream live for free.


Read our MLB.TV review.




 



See at MLB.TV













ESPN Plus ($7 a month)




Carries one out-of-market game per day (blackout restrictions apply)













ESPN's stand-alone streaming service currently costs $7 a month or $70 a year, but is set to increase to . It shows one game nearly every day of the six-month MLB season. The catch is that your local team's games are blacked out when they appear on ESPN Plus, similar to MLB.TV. Also, the games shown on ESPN Plus are not exclusive to ESPN Plus and are also available on MLB.TV.


Read our ESPN Plus review.




 



See at ESPN Plus

Other options for nationally broadcast gamesThe following two newcomers each have deals with MLB to carry select games exclusively this season. They join YouTube in offering select games throughout 2022. 











Apple TV Plus (free Friday Night Baseball)




Two games every Friday












Apple is getting into live sports streaming. It will stream a baseball doubleheader every Friday night this season on its Apple TV Plus service. Apple TV Plus costs $5 a month, but you'll be able to watch live baseball games on Fridays without a subscription for free. Apple said that the games will be available to "anyone with internet access, for free, only on Apple TV Plus." Better yet, the games will be free from blackout restrictions so you'll be able to watch them no matter where you live and which teams are playing. The games are exclusive to Apple TV Plus, however, which means you won't find them on your local RSN if your local team is playing.Apple has announced the schedule for both July and August. 









See at Apple TV Plus













Peacock Premium ($5 a month)




Carries one game every Sunday morning












In an unusual time slot for the league, Like some of Peacock's other sports content, these MLB games won't be included as part of its free tier. They're reserved for Peacock Premium, which costs $5 per month. Here's the  through Sept. 4.























MLB Game of the Week Live on YouTube




15 free games throughout the season












As it has done for the past four years, YouTube will broadcast 15 games free to viewers on its platform. These games will be exclusive to YouTube and will not simultaneously air on regional sports networks in local television markets.Upcoming YouTube games include:Minnesota Twins at Milwaukee Brewers, Wednesday, July 27 at 2:00p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. PT)Texas Rangers at Houston Astros, Thursday, August 11 at 2:00p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. PT) Seattle Mariners at Los Angeles Angels, Wednesday, August 17 at 4:00 p.m. ET (1:00 p.m. PT)Cleveland Guardians at Seattle Mariners, Thursday, August 25 at 4:00 p.m. ET (1:00 p.m. PT)Kansas City Royals at Chicago White Sox, Thursday, September 1 at 2:00p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. PT)Cincinnati Reds at Chicago Cubs, Thursday, September 8 at 2:00p.m. ET (11:00 a.m. PT)The games will be produced by MLB Network and can be found by searching for MLB in the YouTube app or visiting the league's YouTube channel.









See at YouTube

Other live TV services
DirecTV Stream carries the most RSNs in its $90 tier but the services below also carry a few. If one of them has your home team, it could save you some money. The chart above has the details.











FuboTV ($70 a month)




Carries ESPN, Fox, FS1, MLB Network and 10 RSNs












FuboTV costs $70 a month and offers 10 RSNs for baseball. It also includes ESPN, Fox and FS1 but not TBS. You can add the MLB Network for an extra $8 a month with the Fubo Extra Package or pay for the $80-a-month Elite streaming tier that includes Fubo Extra. Check out which local networks and RSNs it offers.









See at FuboTV













YouTube TV ($65 a month)