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TORONTO – Baseball fans can watch the Toronto Blue Jays game on Friday night at Canadian regular broadcast home.
SportsNet, the club's Canadian rights holder, said Thursday it signed a deal with Apple TV to simultaneously compete in a road game with the Kansas City Royals on Rogers's airwaves.
The game was originally set to air only on Apple TV+. At the time of the contract, the Blue Jays could potentially clinch the playoff spot for the series opener.
However, Toronto made a 4-0 decision to the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday afternoon, with the Cleveland Guardians beating the Detroit Tigers 3-1. Toronto's magic numbers for clinching the postseason berth remained three, leaving Saturday as the team's earliest clinch date.
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“This is a truly exciting time for Blue Jays fans, especially at this pivotal moment of the season, I wanted to find a way for Canadians to watch Friday games on the sportsnet,” a spokesman for Rogers said in an email. “We found our way by working with the Blue Jays, Major League Baseball and Apple TV.”
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SportsNet and Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Communications.
Almost all Blue Jays games will be aired on the National Sports Network. A handful of Toronto games have been released through Apple TV+'s 162-game season air as part of Streamer's partnership with MLB.
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In a post on the website, SportsNet said it will be producing Apple TV+ for game broadcasts. The network added that it will generate normal pre-match shows and post-game coverage.
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SportsNet said it has recently approached MLB and has come close to attracting streamers with potential deals.
In a post on the website, SportsNet said MLB has facilitated the contract. This also shows that Apple TV will take over the exclusive broadcast rights of Toronto's home games to Tampa Bay Rays on September 26th.
The regular season will continue until September 28th.
Toronto last played the playoffs in 2023. The Blue Jays have been wiped out in their past three postseason appearances dating back to 2020.
Toronto has not won postseason matches since its second appearance in the American League Championship Series in 2016. The Blue Jays last won the World Series in 1993.
The report, which was first published on September 18th, 2025, by Canadian report.
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