Roku is Streaming Major League Baseball Sunday Leadoff Games
References: therokuchannel.roku & theverge
Roku is exclusively streaming Major League Baseball Sunday Leadoff games that kick off on May 19th between St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox. The game is airing live on the Roku Channel with no additional subscription or sign-ups required for a fully accessible viewing experience.
Noah Garden, the Deputy Commissioner of Business and Media at MLB explains in a statement about this launch that, “With free games available to anyone, MLB games on Roku will be widely accessible to fans." Roku will be streaming the Sunday Leadoff games on a weekly basis up until September 15th with the full roster of the games found online. Notably, users can watch replays of the games for up to six hours after it is over.
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Noah Garden, the Deputy Commissioner of Business and Media at MLB explains in a statement about this launch that, “With free games available to anyone, MLB games on Roku will be widely accessible to fans." Roku will be streaming the Sunday Leadoff games on a weekly basis up until September 15th with the full roster of the games found online. Notably, users can watch replays of the games for up to six hours after it is over.
Image Credit: Getty Images, Stacy Revere
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