On the eve of Opening Day, Sports Media Watch has fans covered with a complete listing of the ways to watch Major League Baseball in 2025.
Local games
Main Street Sports
Fans of teams signed with Main Street Sports (i.e.: Angels, Braves, Brewers, Cardinals, Marlins, Rays, Reds, Royals, and Tigers) can watch local games on FanDuel Sports Network, which is available on local cable providers to a varying degree. FDSN is not available on YouTube TV or Hulu+Live TV, but is available on the higher-tier packages from Fubo and DIRECTV Stream.
FDSN is available as a direct-to-consumer subscription, generally priced at $19.99/month, or $99.99 for the full baseball season. Access to FDSN also provides local NBA and NHL games, depending on the market.
MLB Local Media
MLB Network will produce and distribute local games for the Diamondbacks, Guardians, Padres, Rockies, and Twins. The games have been distributed to cable providers in local markets, and are also available on Fubo and DIRECTV Stream, but not YouTube TV or Hulu+Live TV.
As far as traditional cable, the MLB produced games are available on the following platforms:
- Cox’s Contour Preferred package carries Diamondbacks games in Arizona.
- Spectrum cable and Xfinity’s Ultimate package carry Rockies games in Denver.
- AT&T U-verse and Cox carry Padres games in San Diego.
- Twins games are available on Xfinity and Spectrum packages.
- Guardians games are available on Spectrum, Cox, and AT&T U-verse.
MLB.TV offers a direct-to-consumer package for these teams for $19.99/month, or $99.99 for the full season.
NBC Sports
Giants, Athletics, and Phillies games will air on NBC Sports Bay Area, California, and Philadelphia, respectively. These networks are available on local cable systems, as well as streaming platforms like YouTube TV, Hulu, and Fubo. Select Giants and Phillies games will also air on the NBC stations in San Francisco and Philadelphia.
Fans can subscribe directly to their local games by purchasing a local MLB.TV package for $20-25/month. The NBC Sports RSNs are also available as a $18-$25/month add-on to a Peacock subscription, which also includes local NBA and NHL games.
Everything else
Independent RSNs cover the rest of the league’s games. All networks are available locally on cable providers, but are generally not included in streaming bundles. Direct-to-consumer streaming options have been noted where available.
- Astros: Space City Home Network
- Blue Jays: Available nationally in the US on MLB.TV (no blackouts)
- Cubs: Marquee Sports Network (streaming for $19.99/month)
- Dodgers: Spectrum SportsNet LA (SNLA+ streaming available through MLB.TV)
- Mariners: Root Sports Northwest (streaming for $19.99/month)
- Mets: SNY, PIX 11 (SNY games streaming available through MLB.TV)
- Nationals and Orioles: MASN
- Pirates: SportsNet Pittsburgh (streaming for $17.99/month)
- Rangers: Rangers Sports Network (streaming on Victory+ for $100/season)
- Red Sox: NESN (streaming for $29.99/month)
- White Sox: CHSN (available over-the-air in Chicago on channel 62.2, streaming for $19.99/month)
- Yankees: YES Network (streaming for $24.99/month), Amazon Prime Video (select games), Gotham Sports ($41.99/month, includes MSG Network)
Over-the-air
Many teams have announced arrangements to simulcast a limited number of games on a local over-the-air broadcast station. These are often independent stations or digital subchannels (e.g. Channel 4.2). Availability on streaming platforms varies by market, but all can be received using a quality antenna available at major retailers.
Games nationally televised by Fox are also receivable over-the-air.
National games
FOX and FS1
Fox will carry a slate of split-national games on Saturday nights, beginning with Mets-Astros and Braves-Padres on March 29. Fox will televise the All-Star game on July 15, as well as the Speedway Classic at between the Braves and Reds at Bristol Motor Speedway on August 2. Fox games are not available on local RSNs. Fox and FS1 will combine to cover the American League postseason, with Fox airing the World Series for the 26th-straight year. FS1 will also carry a slate of non-exclusive games, mostly on Saturday afternoons.
ESPN
ESPN will exclusively carry Sunday Night Baseball, as well as opening day games (Brewers-Yankees and Tigers-Dodgers) and a handful of others. ESPN games are not available on local RSNs or on MLB.TV. ESPN will also televise the Home-Run Derby on July 14. ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC will televise the Wild Card Series on September 30-October 2.
TBS
TBS will continue to air Tuesday night games, with all of its coverage simulcast on Max. TBS’s coverage begins with Diamondbacks-Yankees on April 1. TBS games are non-exclusive and are usually blacked out in local markets. TBS will also carry the National League postseason.
Apple TV+
Apple TV+ will again carry Friday night games (usually doubleheaders), which are exclusive to the streaming service and not available on RSNs or MLB.TV. Apple TV’s coverage begins on March 28 with Mets-Astros.
Roku Channel
The free streaming channel will again carry Sunday afternoon games. The games are not available on RSNs but Roku’s coverage is simulcast on MLB.TV with no local blackout. Roku’s coverage begins with Cubs-Mets on May 11.
MLB Network
MLB Network will carry non-exclusive games throughout the season, which are blacked out in local markets. MLBN’s first games are Cubs-Diamondbacks and Athletics-Mariners on Opening Day.
Out-of-market games
All games are available through MLB.TV, subject to local blackout restrictions. Fans can only watch teams outside of those that are televised on an RSN in their market area. Games televised by Fox, ESPN, and Apple TV+ are also not available on MLB.TV.
