TORONTO – Baseball followers in Canada mustn’t count on a repeat of a deal that allowed Sportsnet to air a simulcast of Apple TV’s Friday Evening Baseball broadcast that featured the Toronto Blue Jays final week.
On account of the settlement, the streamer was given the rights for Friday’s recreation between the Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays.
“Apple has it solely,” a Sportsnet spokesperson stated Thursday afternoon in an e-mail.
Sportsnet, the Canadian workforce’s home rights-holder, reached a take care of the Blue Jays, Apple TV and Main League Baseball forward of final Friday’s recreation between Toronto and Kansas Metropolis.
That matchup had the potential to be a playoff clincher for the Blue Jays. The Royals pounded Toronto 20-1 that evening however the Blue Jays would safe a post-season berth two days later.
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Getting into Thursday’s video games, there was a state of affairs that would have seen the Blue Jays transfer into a possible clinch state of affairs for the American League East Division title on Friday.
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However when Toronto defeated the Boston Purple Sox 6-1 and the New York Yankees beat the Chicago White Sox 5-3, the Blue Jays’ magic quantity was trimmed to a few. That left Saturday because the earliest attainable clinch date.
As an alternative of airing on Sportsnet, Friday’s Jays-Rays matchup will solely be proven on Apple TV+, leaving non-subscribers with no viewing possibility.
There have been no plans to alter that association, a baseball supply confirmed Thursday.
Nearly all Blue Jays video games air on Sportsnet, however a handful of Toronto video games all through the 162-game season air on Apple TV+ as a part of the streamer’s partnership with MLB.
Toronto is seeking to win the East crown for the primary time since 2015. The Blue Jays maintain the tiebreaker over the Yankees within the occasion they end the common season on Sunday with the identical document.
The highest two division winners will earn byes to the best-of-five division sequence. The opposite 4 AL playoff groups will play in best-of-three wild-card sequence.
Toronto made the playoffs 3 times between 2020 and ’23 however was swept within the wild-card sequence every time.
The Blue Jays haven’t gained a post-season recreation since 2016. Toronto’s final World Collection title got here in 1993.
Sportsnet and the Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Communications.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Sept. 25, 2025.
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