The MLB revealed in June the 2022 season schedule of games that will be broadcast on Apple TV+ on the streaming platform’s “Friday Night Baseball” show in July.
Fans can watch the game via a free trial to Apple TV+.
Notable games in July include the Los Angeles Angels, led by Shohei Ohtani, vs. Houston Astros, led by Yordan Alvarez, and the Chicago Cubs vs. the Philadelphia Phillies. The first half of the doubleheader schedule was made public on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, and many of those games have already been played.
Here’s the remaining schedule, courtesy of Apple.com:
Friday, July 1
Texas Rangers at New York Mets 7 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Los Angeles Angels at Houston Astros 8 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Friday, July 8
Pittsburgh Pirates at Milwaukee Brewers 8 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Toronto Blue Jays at Seattle Mariners 10 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Friday, July 15
Pittsburgh Pirates at Colorado Rockies 8:30 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Arizona Diamondbacks at San Diego Padres 9:30 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Friday, July 22
Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia Phillies 7 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Cleveland Guardians at Chicago White Sox 8 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Friday, July 29
Detroit Tigers at Toronto Blue Jays 7 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Chicago Cubs at San Francisco Giants 10 p.m. ET (Apple TV+, free trial)
Here’s a recent baseball story from the Associated Press:
An investment group led by former Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow, who lost his job in baseball for sign-stealing, has bought Spanish soccer club Leganés.
“We will do all we can to improve this club,” Luhnow said in Madrid on Thursday after purchasing the second-division team for an undisclosed sum from prior owners Victoria Pavón and Felipe Moreno.
Leganés is a modest club based in a neighborhood of southern Madrid. The team finished 12th in the 22-team second division last season.
Two years ago, Luhnow and Astros manager AJ Hinch were suspended for one year by Major League Baseball after being found to have engineered a sign-stealing scheme using electronics during Houston’s run to the 2017 World Series title and again in the 2018 season. They were both subsequently fired in January 2020.
Luhnow heads Blue Crow Sports, an investment group that he said includes investors from the United States, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Canada. Earlier this month, Blue Crow Sports completed its acquisition of Mexican club Cancun FC.
Leganés had been owned since 2008 by Pavón and Moreno, a local couple who took over when the club was mired in debt and playing in the third division.
The club earned promotion to the first division for the first time in 2016. It spent four seasons competing with the top teams in Spain before being relegated. Its greatest achievement came in 2017-18 when it beat Real Madrid on its way to reaching the semifinals of the Copa del Rey.
Luhnow’s talks began with the former owners in September. He said his group chose Leganés because they consider Spanish soccer to have the greatest growth potential in the European game, partly because of the league’s tight cost control measures and its recent investment deal with a private equity firm.
As Leganés new president, Luhnow said his group wants to build its youth teams, promote its women’s team, and invest in technologies such as the use of big data analytics.
“All sports have used technology to create advantages, and that is what we want to do,” Luhnow said in Spanish. “We have a group of people with experience including the Premier League and the MLS who know how to use technology, and Leganés can take advantage of that. Soccer is a bit behind other sports … but that is going to change in the coming years.”
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(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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Ryan Novozinsky may be reached at rnovozinsky@njadvancemedia.com.
