The RSNs above are typically available only to local subscribers.Other teams' games - like a Padres matchup against the Braves - 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.ĪT&T SportsNet Southwest and Bally Sports Southwest 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. Instead, they become available about 90 minutes after the game ends. The big catch with MLB.TV is the blackout restriction: You can't watch national games (those on ESPN, Fox, TBS, Apple TV Plus or Peacock) or your local team's games live. A single team option runs $130 for the season. MLB.TV costs $25 a month or $150 for the year. It's great for hard-core fans in general.
The other option is MLB.TV, a separate service that carries every game played by every team, live. If you're a baseball fan who needs your team's RSN, a cable subscription might actually be cheaper than streaming. Sling TV, a service that costs $40 a month, doesn't have any RSNs for baseball. DirecTV Stream carries the most RSNs, but you'll need to spring for its $100-a-month plan its basic $75-a-month plan doesn't include RSNs.
Most such services, however, carry only a handful of the 30 RSNs that show MLB games - and they're typically the most expensive. Those channels, called regional sports networks, deliver almost all the regular-season games live. Subscribe to a live TV streaming service such as DirecTV Stream or YouTube TVĭepending on where you live, one of the major live TV streaming services could carry the channel that has your favorite team.There are two major ways to stream MLB games day in, day out without a cable or satellite TV subscription: Discovery, owner of AT&T SportsNet, which airs games for the Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros and Pittsburgh Pirates (as well as owning a piece in the Seattle Mariners' network), has similarly said it plans to leave the RSN business, which could spell trouble for watching those teams.Īs with the Bally Sports situation, this could change, and with any luck more details should become available as we near opening day. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays and Texas Rangers. For now, games will air on those stations as they always have, but the situation could change.īally Sports airs games for a number of MLB teams, including the Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Guardians, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels, Miami Marlins, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres, St. Diamond Sports Group, which owns the Bally Sports regional sports networks, filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, and it remains to be seen what this means for watching baseball on those RSNs in 2023.
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