{"id":877902,"date":"2026-09-02T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877902\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:16:20","slug":"apple-tv-inks-deal-with-yahoo-sports-for-free-mlb-mls-alt-casts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877902\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV Inks Deal With Yahoo Sports for Free MLB, MLS Alt-Casts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tApple<\/a> has forged a new pact with Yahoo Sports<\/a> aimed at reminding everyone that Apple TV<\/a> carries a bevy of live sports.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the next two months, Yahoo Sports will stream alternate broadcasts of four Apple TV games: two MLB \u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d games and two Major League Soccer matches. The alt-casts will stream for free across the Yahoo Sports website and app and feature unique camera angles provided by Apple TV.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, only the first two innings of the baseball games will be streamed by Yahoo Sports. As Apple noted in announcing the deal, one of the goals for the Yahoo Sports alt-casts will be \u201cto help educate fans on how to watch Apple TV\u2019s \u2018Friday Night Baseball\u2019 and MLS broadcasts.\u201d Each Yahoo Sports alt-cast livestream will feature a direct link to the Apple TV app, where fans can subscribe to watch the main broadcast of the featured matchups \u2014 along with the platform\u2019s full slate of games.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two MLB games on Yahoo Sports will be the Detroit Tigers at Cleveland Guardians (Sept. 4) and Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets (Sept. 18). The first two innings of those games will be called by Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman, hosts of Yahoo Sports\u2019 \u201cBaseball Bar-B-Cast\u201d podcast. The Yahoo Sports senior MLB writers will also host pregame shows for each matchup.<\/p>\n

\n\tYahoo Sports will stream alt-casts of two full MLS matches, including pregame coverage: the 2026 Michelob Ultra Campeones Cup, featuring reigning MLS Cup champion Inter Miami CF pitted against defending Liga MX champion Cruz Azul (Sept. 16); and Inter Miami CF vs. FC Cincinnati (Oct. 28). Those matches will be called by the co-hosts of Yahoo Sports podcast \u201cThe Cooligans,\u201d Alexis Guerreros and Christian Polanco.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to pair our expert voices with Apple TV\u2019s live coverage to give fans on Yahoo a fun new way to watch \u2018Friday Night Baseball\u2019 and MLS action,\u201d Jarrod Schwarz, GM of Yahoo Sports, said in a statement. \u201cThese broadcasts will feature the insight, personality, and chemistry that make Baseball Bar-B-Cast and The Cooligans so popular, and we can\u2019t wait to see that energy show up during some of the season\u2019s biggest games.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYahoo Sports will promote Apple TV\u2019s exclusive \u201cFriday Night Baseball\u201d broadcasts and global coverage of MLS through on-site advertising, email marketing, social promotion, \u201chow to watch\u201d articles, \u201cDaily Draw\u201d games and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tPictured above: Catcher Dillon Dingler of the Detroit Tigers tags out Travis Bazzana of the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field on June 13, 2026, in Cleveland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has forged a new pact with Yahoo Sports aimed at reminding everyone that Apple TV carries a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[1337,23083,64,63,591,85,356327],"class_list":["post-877902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple","tag-apple-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-yahoo-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}