There is some daytime baseball on Thursday, April 24 when the Seattle Mariners take on the Boston Red Sox in the final game of their three-game series at Fenway PArk in Boston.
The game is scheduled to start at 1:35 p.m. EDT and will be broadcast on MLB Network, NESN and Root Sports Northwest. Fans looking to watch this MLB game for free can do so using DirecTV Stream, which offers a free trial, or FuboTV, which also offers a free trial and up to $25 off your first month. Fans can also watch MLB games for free through MLB.TV, which offers a free trial and has different packages to choose from, including one that allows fans to listen to radio broadcasts with no blackout restrictions. Sling TV does not have a free trial but does offer other promotional offers to watch the game.
The Red Sox took the first game of the series, 8-3, and the Mariners bounced back to take the second game, 8-5. Now the teams meet for an afternoon matinee rubber match to determine the series winner.
Seattle is sending Bryan Woo to the mound while Boston will have Garrett Crochet starting. Crotchet. has a 1.13 ERA and a 0.91 WHIP on the young season in which he’s allowed only 19 hits, 10 walks and picked up 35 strikeouts.
Who: Seattle Mariners vs. Boston Red Sox
When: Thursday, April 24 at 1:35 p.m. EDT
Where: Fenway Park in Boston
Stream: DirecTV Stream (free trial); FuboTV (free trial); MLB.TV (free trial); Sling TV
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Manfred eager to see how many fans turn out for the MLB Speedway Classic at Bristol
By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Major League Baseball has played at the “Field of Dreams” movie site. Now baseball is eager to see just how big a crowd will show up for a game at a NASCAR bullring of a track.
And Bristol Motor Speedway can hold a lot of people.
It’s part of Commissioner Rob Manfred’s push to take MLB to locations where baseball isn’t played every day live. MLB played a game at the movie site in Iowa in both 2021 and 2022. Alabama, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, too.
Now it’s Tennessee’s turn.
Manfred noted Tuesday after speaking at the CAA World Congress of Sports Presented by Sports Business Journal that the Tennessee Volunteers are the defending college baseball national champions with Vanderbilt winner of two college titles. Manfred sees lots of alignment between NASCAR and MLB fans.
“Big crowd, big crowd,” Manfred said of what is expected at Bristol on Aug. 2. “We think that it’s an opportunity to have a really large audience for a major league game, and we think the setting in really a legendary speedway is going to be awesome for a baseball game.”
Nobody is ready to put a number on how many will turn out for the MLB Speedway Classic when the Cincinnati Reds host the Atlanta Braves. Bristol set a record for a college football game in 2016 and has a capacity of 146,000 for racing.
This game will be played on a field laid over part of the speedway infield and the high-banked track.
Derek Schiller, president and chief executive officer of the Braves, said MLB approached the team a few years ago about this possibility. Schiller said the Braves were adamant about wanting to be a part of this game.
“We know that there’s a uniqueness to it that is unmatched,” Schiller said. “Playing a baseball game at a motor speedway and being part of that was really important also because this is part of where our fan base comes from. So we we think many, maybe most of those fans are going to be Atlanta Braves’ fans.”
Officials announced Tuesday that country superstar Tim McGraw will perform a concert an hour before first pitch. McGraw has ties to baseball having earned a college scholarship playing the sport. His late father Tug McGraw won two World Series titles pitching for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies.
That’s just part of the day of events planned leading up to the game. Jerry Caldwell, president and general manager of Bristol Motor Speedway, would only tease that more announcements are coming. All are designed to give fans reasons to get to the track and into their seats as early as possible.
Hosting an event like this is nothing new for Bristol. The track hosted the Tennessee Volunteers and Virginia Tech in the Battle of Bristol in 2016 before a record 156,990 fans.
So track officials have experience adapting the half-mile concrete track into something new. Caldwell said preparations started before the track’s spring race April 13, won by Kyle Larson. Bristol then will have six weeks until hosting a night NASCAR Cup Series race in the playoffs on Sept. 13.
“It’s becoming very real,” Caldwell said. “We’re approaching 100 days out from the game, and we’re thrilled with the progress.”
The Associated Press contributed to this post
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