No Simulcast Deal For Jays’ Game Friday Night - Beritaja
By: Albert Michael - Friday, 26 September 2025 09:09:43
TORONTO – Baseball fans successful Canada should not expect a repetition of a woody that allowed Sportsnet to aerial a simulcast of Apple TV’s Friday Night Baseball broadcast that featured the Toronto Blue Jays past week.
As a consequence of the agreement, the streamer was fixed the authorities for Friday’s crippled betwixt the Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays.
“Apple has it exclusively,” a Sportsnet spokesperson said Thursday day successful an email.
Sportsnet, the Canadian team’s home rights-holder, reached a woody pinch the Blue Jays, Apple TV and Major League Baseball up of past Friday’s crippled betwixt Toronto and Kansas City.
That matchup had the imaginable to beryllium a playoff clincher for the Blue Jays. The Royals pounded Toronto 20-1 that nighttime but the Blue Jays would unafraid a post-season berth 2 days later.
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Entering Thursday’s games, location was a script that could person seen the Blue Jays move into a imaginable clinch business for the American League East Division title connected Friday.
But erstwhile Toronto defeated the Boston Red Sox 6-1 and the New York Yankees hit the Chicago White Sox 5-3, the Blue Jays’ magic number was trimmed to three. That near Saturday arsenic the earliest imaginable clinch date.
Instead of airing connected Sportsnet, Friday’s Jays-Rays matchup will only beryllium shown connected Apple TV+, leaving non-subscribers without a viewing option.
There were nary plans to alteration that arrangement, a shot root confirmed Thursday.
Almost each Blue Jays games aerial connected Sportsnet, but a fistful of Toronto games passim the 162-game play aerial connected Apple TV+ arsenic portion of the streamer’s business pinch MLB.
Toronto is looking to triumph the East crown for the first clip since 2015. The Blue Jays clasp the tiebreaker complete the Yankees successful the arena they decorativeness the regular play connected Sunday pinch the aforesaid record.
The apical 2 section winners will gain byes to the best-of-five section series. The different 4 AL playoff teams will play successful best-of-three wild-card series.
Toronto made the playoffs 3 times betwixt 2020 and ’23 but was swept successful the wild-card bid each time.
The Blue Jays haven’t won a post-season crippled since 2016. Toronto’s past World Series title came successful 1993.
Sportsnet and the Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Communications.
This study by BERITAJA was first published Sept. 25, 2025.
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