The Blue Jays are poised to make some serious noise over the next month, but one game that could be of huge interest to º£½ÇÉçÇø¹ÙÍøfans won’t be available on Sportsnet TV this week.
Friday’s game against the Kansas City Royals, the first of a three-game weekend series on the road, will instead be streamed on Apple TV+ as with Major League Baseball. It will be the Jays’ fifth and final game of the season on the streaming service.
Depending on how the week plays out, the Jays could either clinch a playoff berth, or the American League East division, that night.
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The Jays are coming off a disappointing season last year, and haven’t won the AL East since 2015, giving fans even more reasons to watch.
Toronto, in Tampa Bay this week before heading to Kansas City, leads the AL East and has a five-game lead on the New York Yankees heading into Tuesday’s action, with a dozen games left in the season.
MLB signed a seven-year deal with Apple TV+ in 2022 to produce the Friday Night Baseball, a doubleheader that also includes pregame and postgame analysis for the streaming service’s subscribers. There that Apple was looking to withdraw from the deal earlier than initially planned, but there hasn’t been any official update.
Fans who don’t have the service can sign up for Apple TV+ and .
The Milwaukee Brewers and the Philadelphia Phillies have already booked their tickets to the post-season in the National League. No AL team has clinched a playoff spot yet.
Gilbert Ngabo is a Toronto-based sports reporter for the Star.
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