Roku is the new home of the “MLB Sunday Leadoff” games beginning this weekend with Red Sox-Cardinals. What Roku is paying is "not yet known, but it is a multiyear agreement." The game telecasts will be "produced in collaboration with MLB." For this Sunday, play-by-play announcer Chip Caray , analyst Will Middlebrooks and reporter Alexa Datt have the call. Peacock had formerly been the home of the package. Roku will also offer a "new MLB Zone designed to help fans find their teams’ games using the service daily and a fully programmed MLB FAST channel." The Roku concept has "more exclusivity than Apple TV+’s current plan to show 'Friday Night Baseball.'" Unlike Apple, the Roku games will be the "only games on for an hour-and-a-half or two hours," as no other Sunday matchups are "allowed to have a first pitch before 1:35 p.m." ( THE ATHLETIC, 5/13 ).
Roku officially lands 'MLB Sunday Leadoff' games
