Apple Reportedly Finalist for MLB's Sunday Night and Wild Card Games

Apple and NBC look to beryllium the "final contenders" for the rights to MLB's "Sunday Night Baseball" package, and "presumably" adjacent Wild Card postseason games, according to a study this week from The Athletic's Andrew Marchand.


Netflix and ESPN besides stay successful negotiations with MLB officials, the study said.

ESPN held the rights to Sunday Night Baseball done the 2028 season, but the web and MLB mutually opted retired of the $550-million-per-year declaration earlier this year, truthful ESPN's rights present expire aft the 2025 season. Apple is present looking to prime up those last 3 seasons, on with NBC, portion ESPN mightiness negociate a caller weekday package.

Apple TV+ already streams MLB's Friday Night Baseball games, and the work could connection Sunday Night Baseball excessively if Apple wins the rights.

ESPN besides held the rights to the Wild Card Series for the American League and National League, truthful Apple mightiness onshore those postseason games arsenic well. However, the study said MLB could determine to divided the Sunday Night and Wild Card rights.

Netflix is simply a frontrunner for MLB's yearly Home Run Derby, according to the report.

Following the 2028 season, each determination and nationalist MLB media rights volition beryllium expired, and the league is hoping to array a bigger all-in-one bundle of rights. Apple would apt beryllium precise funny successful specified a package, arsenic it would let the institution to connection an MLB equivalent of MLS Season Pass done the Apple TV app. However, MLB is overmuch bigger than MLS, truthful it remains to beryllium seen if MLB would beryllium consenting to spell all-in with Apple.

Apple continues to propulsion into sports content, with the institution reportedly likely to unafraid the rights to Formula 1 racing. In the past, the institution unsuccessfully bid connected the NFL's "Sunday Ticket" package, and on the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup.

On a related note, Apple TV+ subscribers tin ticker Bayern Munich superstar Thomas Müller marque his MLS debut with the Vancouver Whitecaps FC for escaped this Sunday, with his lucifer against the Houston Dynamo FC kicking disconnected astatine 6 p.m. Pacific Time.
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