Chicago, IL – July 31, 2016 – Wrigley Field: Kris Bryant (17), Addison Russell (27), Mike Montgomery (38), Anthony Rizzo (44) and Willson Contreras (40) of the Chicago Cubs during a regular season Sunday Night Baseball game
(Photo by Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images)
Starting this Friday night, the MLB and Twitter will start live streaming weekly games on the social platform, with the World Series Champion Chicago Cubs playing at the Milwaukee Brewers.
The weekly live streams of out-of-market games are part of the Major League Baseball Advanced Media’s partnership with Twitter, which it inked in 2016.
The free Friday night games will be available worldwide for both logged-in and logged-out users on mlb.twitter.com or MLB‘s Twitter page, minus certain international territories. All of the Twitter live streams, which will be a simulcast of the home team’s linear broadcast, will be accessible on smartphones, PCs, tablets and other connected devices.
Below is April’s schedule of MLB games on Twitter:
April 7, 2017 — Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers — 8:10 p.m. ET
April 14, 2017 — New York Mets at Miami Marlins — 7:10 p.m. ET
April 21, 2017 — Boston Red Sox at Baltimore Orioles — 7:05 p.m. ET
April 28, 2017 — Cincinnati Reds at St. Louis Cardinals — 8:15 p.m. ET
Twitter’s MLB schedule for April was announced a day after it was reported that Twitter would not have the streaming rights for Thursday Night NFL games next season with the NFL securing Amazon as its live streaming partner.
Twitter is currently live streaming weekly NHL games along with National Lacrosse League games, too.
