MLB.tv inaccessible on Opening Day because of technical issue

Opening Day of a new MLB regular season got started with a bang Thursday. For many fans hoping to catch the league-wide action via the league's MLB.tv streaming service, the start of the new season would have to wait.

A technical issue rendered live game streaming inaccessible for many MLB.tv users on Thursday.

Happy Opening Day pic.twitter.com/ZQZvpPtc6a
— J.P. Hoornstra (@jphoornstra) March 27, 2025

While the league worked to restore service as quickly as possible behind the scenes, MLB.tv seemed unready for the first day of regular season baseball. Most teams were in action Thursday for the first time since last September, and the streaming service lagged in turn.

Social media responded with its predictable uproar.

https://t.co/lJCCns9Hzy not working. Can’t find CHSN on the press box televisions. The White Sox dedication to the car parade is the only remaining normalcy in a broken world.
— James Fegan (@JRFegan) March 27, 2025

But wait, it gets worse: I went to re-watch the aforementioned wrong intro video, only to discover that I'm not even able to stream the Twins' new channel on MLB-tv or the MLB app.

Just endless buffering and error messages so far.

I guess they're lucky there's a rain delay. pic.twitter.com/pIUBdXveI3
— Aaron Gleeman (@AaronGleeman) March 27, 2025

Less than two hours after the New York Yankees and Milwaukee Brewers kicked off the day with a historic Austin Wells home run and Joe Buck on the call for ESPN, many MLB.tv users reported the service had been restored.

I believe the MLB TV app is working again, if it's not for you, don't kill the messenger
— Jen McCaffrey (@jcmccaffrey) March 27, 2025

Although the MLB.tv issue might have been the most widespread, it wasn't the only reported problem with an MLB streamer Thursday.

Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic reports that the Twins’ new TV channel launched Thursday with "a dramatic, Bob Costas-voiced video about … the Cleveland Guardians’ new TV channel."

Gleeman reported that after "about three minutes, someone must have realized the mistake and pressed the button to switch to the Twins’ broadcast … which was then immediately in time-killing mode due to a rain relay in St. Louis."

MLB recently announced it will produce and distribute local games during the 2025 season for five teams: the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Guardians, Colorado Rockies, Minnesota Twins and San Diego Padres.

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