The defending ALCS Champion Tampa Bay Rays will face the Boston Red Sox as the first of 21 games … [+] that will air for free on YouTube for 2021 (Photo by Mike Carlson/Getty Images) Getty Images On Monday, Major League Baseball and YouTube announced that for the third year, the two will embark on showing an exclusive MLB Game Of The Week Live on YouTube that will give fans free access to games around the world. As the league broadcasts games across regional sports networks, national television broadcast partners, and its MLB.TV Premium streaming service, can MLB continue to balance it all so that subscribers and media partners remain happy? The deal will see 21 games shown exclusively worldwide throughout the course of the 2021 season, starting with the defending American League champion Tampa Bay Rays facing the Boston Red Sox on April 7 at 1 pm ET. The partnership between the Alphabet-owned YouTube and MLB is now a decade long. Since that time, Google GOOG has become entrenched with the league, most notably after taking over for Amazon AMZN Web Services to host the league’s massive IT infrastructure. The additional games on YouTube are bound to satisfy a…
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