Macworld iconMacworldSep 2, 2026 ~1 min source read

Apple teams up with Yahoo Sports to frustrate MLB fans even more

What used to be a consistent place to watch your local team play every night is now spread across several platforms, including Peacock, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple TV. It seems like every night, social media lights up with baseball fans who either can't find or don't want to pay to watch one of the two games being broadcast on some streaming service.

Apple teams up with Yahoo Sports to frustrate MLB fans even more

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What used to be a consistent place to watch your local team play every night is now spread across several platforms, including Peacock, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple TV.

It seems like every night, social media lights up with baseball fans who either can't find or don't want to pay to watch one of the two games being broadcast on some streaming service.

The only problem is that Yahoo is only airing the first two innings of each game.

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What used to be a consistent place to watch your local team play every night is now spread across several platforms, including Peacock, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple TV. It seems like every night, social media lights up with baseball fans who either can't find or don't want to pay to watch one of the two games being broadcast on some streaming service. The only problem is that Yahoo is only airing the first two innings of each game.

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  • So if you're a fan of the New York Mets and you excitedly stumble across the game and start watching, you'll get cut off after about a half-hour of action.
  • As anyone who watches baseball will tell you, the first two innings are generally not the most exciting.
  • The truncated games will also have their own announcers, Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman, hosts of Yahoo Sports' "Baseball Bar-B-Cast" podcast.

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Macworld It's no secret that sports fans hate streaming. Apple seemingly understands at least one of these frustrations. Variety reports that Apple has inked a deal with Yahoo Sports to stream a pair of Friday Night Baseball games— Detroit Tigers at Cleveland Guardians on September 4, and Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets on September 18—for free on Yahoo's site and apps.

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