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Apple and Major League Baseball this week announced the July schedule for Friday Night Baseball, a weekly doubleheader of MLB games streamed on Apple TV+.

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Friday Night Baseball is included with an Apple TV+ subscription, at no additional cost. In the U.S., Apple TV+ costs $9.99 per month or $99 per year, and it is also included in all Apple One subscription bundles with other Apple services.

The full July schedule is as follows:
Friday, 7/4
St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
2:20 p.m. ET

Los Angeles Angels at Toronto Blue Jays
7:07 p.m. ET

Friday, 7/11
Seattle Mariners at Detroit Tigers
7:10 p.m. ET

Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Angels
9:38 p.m. ET

Friday, 7/18
No games

Friday, 7/25
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Yankees
7:05 p.m. ET

Cleveland Guardians at Kansas City Royals
8:10 p.m. ET
Available in 60 countries, Apple says Friday Night Baseball provides enhanced production quality, expert commentary, and no local broadcast restrictions.

Article Link: Apple TV+ Announces MLB Friday Night Baseball Schedule for July
 
Apple TV is trash for baseball games. Thanks be to Zeus/jesus/god/allah/vishnu for alternative means to watch baseball! At least I can listen to the local audio feed too.
 
I really love that Apple is doing all this sports stuff. I wish there was a way to turn off all these sports notifications on my phone and ATV without loosing all other notifications at the same time.

Notifications overload!
 
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Tallest midget. Even women’s basketball outshines baseball.
Yikes, wrong again. The average MLB attendance for this year is just over 27k. the average WNBA attendance last year was just under 10k. Let's go ahead and consider the NBA attendance numbers (18k), and MLB ranks only behind the NFL amongst the 4 major leagues, in average attendance.
 
Still not available in my country. But honestly speaking there would be very very few people watching this here.

And cannot complain too much, Apple allows us to use the free three month offers also from the neighboring countries; I have watched ATV+ free for a year now.
 
As much as I like Apple's design language, I feel like it doesn't translate well to baseball chyrons and scoreboxes. It's too bland (lacking color) and small, and these are supposed to visually summarize information at a glance.

Glad to know I can switch to local broadcasting audio, Apple's announcers are really hit or miss for me. Also, I find it really funny that the reporter doing post-game interviews is always wearing AirPods Max.
 
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