How to watch Sunday’s Red Sox game on Roku
When the Red Sox take on the St. Louis Cardinals for the final game of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon, you won’t be able to watch the game on NESN. The game won’t be on Fox or ESPN either.
The game will be streamed exclusively by Roku, which last week was announced as the new home of MLB’s Sunday Leadoff package.
Introduced in 2022, the Sunday Leadoff package encompasses the first game of the day on every Sunday from now through Sept. 15. The package was previously hosted by NBC’s Peacock streaming service, and this weekend’s Red Sox vs. Cardinals game will be the first game broadcast by Roku.
The deal with Roku is reportedly worth $30 million over three years, according to Evan Drellich of The Athletic.
To watch Sunday’s Red Sox game, fans can stream the Roku Channel for free with no subscription or sign-up required. Viewers can access the service with their Roku devices or TVs, via TheRokuChannel.com, through the Roku app on iOS and Android devices, Amazon Fire TVs, Samsung TVs and Google TVs and other Android TV OS devices. In addition, fans who subscribe to MLB.TV can watch all Sunday Leadoff games blackout free from anywhere in the world.
Sunday’s game is scheduled to begin at 1:05 p.m. ET and will feature Chip Caray on play-by-play, NESN’s Will Middlebrooks as an analyst and Alexa Datt as a reporter.