Major League Baseball dropped the ball for fans of America’s pastime: The league’s MLB.TV streaming service is down for thousands users, with the outage happening on the 2025 baseball season’s opening day Thursday.
As of 4:03 p.m. ET Thursday, there were more than 21,000 user complaints about the MLB.TV outage on uptime-monitoring service Downdetector.com. Most of the complaints (71%) were attributed to problems with the MLB.TV app. By 4:44 p.m. ET, the number of complaints had dropped to about 2,000, indicating the MLB.TV had largely resolved the problems.
Reps for MLB did not immediately respond to a request for more info.
MLB.TV, a pioneering streaming service that originally debuted way back in 2000, offers access to every out-of-market game live or on demand (in addition to the ability to stream MLB Network in the U.S.). For U.S. customers, the service is priced at $149.99 per season or $29.99 per month. In addition, T-Mobile is offering a free full-season subscription to MLB.TV through March 31 to eligible T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile, Home Internet and small business customers.
Last season, MLB.TV set a new high of 14.5 billion minutes watched, an increase of 14% over last year’s previous high mark of 12.7 billion minutes, according to the league.
Baseball fans took to social media to express their ire about Thursday’s technical problems. “It’s completely unacceptable @MLBTV is down on #OpeningDay,” one wrote on X and include a meme of a baseball fan yelling “FIGURE IT OUT.”
Another penned on X, “The most unreal part of this is that it’s broken today, and the second most unreal part is that we have just no acknowledgement of the problem by anyone at @MLB or @MLBTV. No ‘we’re working on it,’ Tweet, not, ‘we’re sorry,’ Tweet, no email offering a discount, nothing.”
