TORONTO – Baseball followers will now be capable of watch the Toronto Blue Jays sport on Friday night time on the group’s common broadcast dwelling in Canada.
Sportsnet, the membership’s Canadian rights-holder, mentioned Thursday it had struck a cope with Apple TV to simulcast the highway sport in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Royals on Rogers airwaves.
The sport was initially set to air solely on Apple TV+, which might have left non-subscribers with out a viewing possibility. On the time of the settlement, the Blue Jays had been in place to probably clinch a playoff spot within the sequence opener.
Nonetheless, Toronto dropped a 4-0 choice to the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday afternoon and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers 3-1. Toronto’s magic quantity to clinch a post-season berth remained at three, leaving Saturday because the group’s earliest doable clinch date.
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“This can be a actually thrilling time of 12 months for Blue Jays followers, and we needed to try to discover a manner for Canadians to look at Friday’s sport on Sportsnet, particularly at this pivotal second of the season,” a Rogers spokesperson mentioned in an e-mail. “In working with the Blue Jays, Main League Baseball and Apple TV, glad we discovered a manner.”
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Sportsnet and the Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Communications.
Virtually all Blue Jays video games air on the nationwide sports activities community. A handful of Toronto video games all through the 162-game season air on Apple TV+ as a part of the streamer’s partnership with MLB.
In a submit on its web site, Sportsnet mentioned it is going to carry the Apple TV+ manufacturing of the sport broadcast. The community added it could produce its common pre-game present and post-game protection.
Sportsnet mentioned it just lately approached MLB to have interaction the streamer on a possible deal.
In its web site submit, Sportsnet mentioned that MLB facilitated an settlement, which will even see Apple TV take over unique broadcast rights of Toronto’s dwelling sport in opposition to the Tampa Bay Rays on Sept. 26.
The common season continues by means of Sept. 28.
Toronto final made the playoffs in 2023. The Blue Jays had been swept of their final three post-season appearances courting again to 2020.
Toronto hasn’t gained a post-season sport since making a second straight American League Championship Collection look in 2016. The Blue Jays final gained the World Collection in 1993.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Sept. 18, 2025.
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