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From Wild Bill Hagy’s “roar from 34” to the suitably-named Fired Up Guy, from “O! say” to “oh, indeed,” Baltimore loyalists have an earnest relationship with their hometown baseball club that deserves to be celebrated, even amid the funky start to 2025. There are still five months for the season to turn around, and the young core of Gunnar Henderson, Jackson Holliday and Adley Rutschman has what it takes.
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Baseball can sometimes be challenging to follow, just by the sheer enormity of regular-season games. It’s harder than ever due to blackout restrictions and the tech sprawl. Accordingly, here’s a consolidated look at your Os’ regional sports network situation, their national TV schedule and the thickets of exclusivity rules around MLB streaming.
How to stream regional Baltimore Orioles broadcasts in-market
Fubo (try for free)
Fubo is a cable-cutting streaming platform that offers local and national channels, along with add-on sports packages. Any game on MASN, ESPN, Fox or MLB Network can be streamed here (more on those below). TBS games cannot.
What you need to watch these games: The “pro” plan starts at $84.99 per month, with an additional charge for 4K Ultra HD. For more baseball, there is the MLB.TV add-on, which streams every out-of-market game for $29.99 a month, and the “sports lite” package (with MLB Network) for $9.99 a month.
Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN)
This is Baltimore’s regional sports network, the exclusive carrier for local action. The franchise has a 77 percent controlling interest in MASN, with the nearby Washington Nationals owning the remainder.
MASN has been the sole regional broadcaster since 2007, and it now has a corresponding streaming app called MASN+. Orioles games were previously on Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic / Home Team Sports.
Kevin Brown has called 130 games each season since 2022, initially backing up Jim Hunter from 2019-21. He has some recent gems on the mic, and he endeared himself to fans after ownership suspended him for … reading the team’s stat splits versus Tampa? Alright then. Jim Palmer, the legendary right-hander and prolific pancake appreciator, can be found on color commentary. Scott Garceau, Brett Hollander, Melanie Newman and Ben Wagner fill in for the few games that Brown gets off.
What you need to watch these games: Fubo, DirecTV Stream (starting $80-90 monthly), MASN+ app ($19.99 per month or $89.99/year for a team pass).
How to watch the regional broadcasts on cable or satellite
What you need to watch these games: A carrier in your territory that has MASN, like any of the following —
- Armstrong
- Bay Country Communications
- Breezline
- Co-Mo Connect
- Cox
- DirecTV
- Easton Velocity
- Lumos Networks
- Mediacom
- Scout
- Spectrum
- Verizon Fios
- Xfinity
How to watch the regional broadcasts out-of-market
Like Elaine Benes, plenty of expat Orioles fans will find themselves outside the market boundaries. The MLB.TV package has those lovely folks covered, with every regular-season inning from across the league (excluding national and in-market games for your region). It costs $150 annually. Fubo offers the MLB.TV add-on for $29.99 a month.
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Meanwhile, MLB Network airs almost 300 local broadcasts for national audiences, so out-of-towners can catch some Orioles games there. MLB Network also offers 26 unique, produced-in-house “showcase” games that are not subject to local blackouts.
What you need to watch these games: MLB Network for select games / MLB.TV for all of them.
How to watch the national TV games
ESPN
The league has partnered with ESPN since 1990; that ends this fall. Yup, the purveyors of the iconic music are indeed opting out of their remaining baseball broadcasts. For this season, you’ll still find select primetime matchups here. Jon Sciambi (play-by-play for the Cubs) and Karl Ravech are usually on the mic, alongside five-time World Series winner David Cone and well-traveled utility hitter Eduardo Pérez. Generational baseball narrator Joe Buck returned to the booth for a memorable Opening Day affair, but he’s sticking with football now. For ESPN, think Sundays, especially “Sunday Night Baseball.”
Baltimore doesn’t have any first-half ESPN looks remaining. The network’s second-half schedule will be announced in the coming weeks.
Fox/FS1
Fox is where you’ll hear Joe Davis (voice of the Dodgers), Jason Benetti (Tigers) or Adam Amin (the NBA’s Chicago Bulls) on the call. Retired Silver Slugger catcher A.J. Pierzynski, playoff bellwether Adam Wainwright, 1992 Rookie of the Year Eric Karros and Dontrelle Willis (aka the D-Train!) rotate in the booth. Three Hall-of-Famers are on this network: Derek Jeter and David Ortiz during the pregame and John Smoltz for color commentary. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal can be seen reporting from the field, too. Fox usually has a Saturday spot.
Brandon Hyde’s squad has four games slated here for the summer. The Orioles will host Houston on Aug. 21 and the New York Yankees on Sept. 18. The lone road Fox game is at San Francisco on Aug. 30. Then there are another four FS1 games. They’ll welcome the crosstown (ish) Nationals on May 17, then head to Boston a week later on the 24th. They’ll do another FS1 game from Wrigley Field in Chicago on Aug. 2, and one more hosting Tampa Bay on Sept. 24. Someone give Kevin Brown the heads up before that last one.
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TBS
This is the Tuesday action, with Brian Anderson (Brewers) and Ron Darling (Mets) as the mainstays. It’s a stacked pre-postgame show with all-time great Pedro Martínez, 2007 NL MVP Jimmy Rollins and three-time All-Star Curtis Granderson. TBS games can also be streamed on Max. The playoff broadcasts add decorated former player and manager Dusty Baker to the studio. Bob Costas was on the mic here before his retirement last fall.
There are no TBS games listed for the Orioles yet.
Roku
The purple metropolis now has “MLB Sunday Leadoff” games free from blackout restrictions. B-More is in the Roku rotation twice: June 22 for a Sunday morning wake-up at Yankee Stadium, then July 6 to play the Braves in Atlanta.
Apple TV+
Like with Roku, you can stream more baseball games from your smart TV. Unlike Roku, the Apple TV+ games are regionally blacked out. Alex Faust (also of NHL and Jeopardy fame) is on these calls, as is Wayne Randazzo (Angels).
Camden Yards will stage two different Apple games on June Fridays: against the Angels on the 13th, then against the Rays on the 27th.
For national MLB games in general, think:
- TBS on Tuesdays
- Apple TV+ on Fridays
- Fox and FS1 on Saturdays
- Roku on Sunday mornings
- ESPN with “Sunday Night Baseball”
- MLB Network on most days
Baltimore Orioles odds for 2025
All-time franchise leaders
- Hits — Cal Ripken Jr. (3184)
- Homers — Cal Ripken Jr. (431)
- Wins — Jim Palmer (268)
- Saves — Gregg Olson (160)
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