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Few North American sports franchises can match the Boston Red Sox in canon, folklore and whimsy. This 2025 squad should be worth watching throughout the summer, too. Alex Bregman and Garrett Crochet have made instant impacts in their new threads. Jarren Duran, Wilyer Abreu and Kristian Campbell appear to be a core to build around. Alex Cora looks rejuvenated with the combo of big-name acquisitions and ascending prospects.
Keeping up with the nightly broadcasts is needlessly difficult these days. The channel rotation can get overwhelming, especially as the sport expands and diversifies its streaming presence. Blackout restrictions are maddening, too. Here’s our best effort to make sense of it all. Make sure you’re following the team and the MLB at-large in your feed. Staff writer Jen McCaffrey is our Boston beat writer, offering consistent roundups and takeaways from each Sox series.
How to stream regional Boston Red Sox 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 NESN, 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.
NESN
This is the 41st year of local Sox games televised on New England Sports Network, the franchise’s regional broadcast partner. Dave O’Brien handles play-by-play narration. Longtime Boston scribe Chad Finn dubbed primary color analyst Lou Merloni a spiritual successor to Jerry Remy, the Somerset native and Sox second baseman who held down NESN’s analyst chair for more than three decades before his death in 2021. Merloni played for the team as well, and he’s a fellow local, hailing from Framingham. He’s also a Cape Cod League Hall-of-Famer and hit a home run in his very first Fenway at-bat back in 1998. Former World Series champs Will Middlebrooks, Kevin Millar, and Kevin Youkilis pop around for color appearances as well.
The NESN studio show is loaded with former franchise favorites: Jim Rice, Lenny DiNardo, Jonathan Papelbon and Deven Marrero.
What you need to watch these games: Fubo, DirecTV Stream (starting $80-90 monthly), NESN 360 app ($29.99 per month or $239.99/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 NESN, like any of the following —
- Astound
- Cox
- DirecTV
- Optimum
- Spectrum
- Verizon FIOS
- Xfinity
How to watch the regional broadcasts out-of-market
Maybe you’re a Bostonian pursuing the Hollywood dream like the Afflecks and Wahlbergs of the world. Maybe you really liked “Fever Pitch.” The MLB.TV package has these out-of-towners covered, with every regular-season inning from across the league (excluding national and in-market regional games). It costs $149.99 annually. Fubo offers the MLB.TV add-on for $29.99 a month.
Meanwhile, MLB Network airs almost 300 local broadcasts for national audiences, so you can catch some Red Sox 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.”
Red Sox games on ESPN: None for the rest of the first half, though the network’s second-half schedule has yet to be announced.
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. The pregame features Derek Jeter (boo as thunderously as your heart desires) and David Ortiz (cheer to that same heart’s content). And one-time Boston pitcher John Smoltz does color commentary. He had eight cups of coffee in Beantown, 40 innings in 2009 to be exact. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal can be seen reporting from the field, too. Fox usually has a Saturday spot.
Red Sox games on Fox/FS1:
- Saturday, May 17 vs. Atlanta Braves
- Saturday, May 24 vs. Baltimore Orioles (FS1)
- Saturday, June 7 at New York Yankees
- Saturday, June 14 vs. New York Yankees
- Saturday, July 19 at Chicago Cubs
- Saturday, July 26 vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
- Thursday, August 21 at New York Yankees
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 2007 NL MVP Jimmy Rollins and three-time All-Star Curtis Granderson. Oh, and hello, old friend!
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.
Red Sox games on TBS:
- Tuesday, May 13 at Detroit Tigers
- Tuesday, May 20 vs. New York Mets
Roku
The purple metropolis now has “MLB Sunday Leadoff” games free from blackout restrictions.
Red Sox games on Roku:
- Sunday, August 3 vs. Houston Astros
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).
Red Sox games on Apple TV+:
- Friday, May 30 at Atlanta Braves
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
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