ABEMA Presents Live Streaming of 324 2024 MLB Official Games Once Again This Year

ABEMA, the TV for the future, has decided to the Major League Baseball (MLB) opening game, Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Diego Padres in Seoul, South Korea, for free on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. In addition, it will be streaming free selected games every week, including Los Angeles Dodgers games featuring Shohei Ohtani and 324 official 2024 MLB games.

　ABEMA started offering live streaming of MLB in 2021, and the Japanese players active in major league baseball have attracted great attention. In the 2023 season, there were more than 260 million views on ABEMA, a 1.6x increase over 2022. Many users have enjoyed watching MLB on ABEMA.

　This season, ABEMA is once again looking forward to following the achievements of Ohtani, who enjoyed great success both as a pitcher and a batter last season and who won many titles such as the American League MVP and home run champion, as well as new major league pitchers such as Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Yuki Matsui, and Shota Imanaga, who demonstrated their world-beating skills in the World Baseball Classic (WBC) in 2023.

　ABEMA will present a free streaming of the opening game: Los Angeles Dodgers, featuring Ohtani and Yamamoto, vs. San Diego Padres, featuring Darvish and Matsui, to be held in Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.

　In addition to the Dodgers vs. Padres game, ABEMA will also be streaming 324 official MLB games live, with teams such as the Chicago Cubs, featuring Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki, the New York Mets, featuring Kodai Senga and Shintaro Fujinami, and the Los Angeles Angels, continuing from last year. We invite you to enjoy the excitement of the major leagues on ABEMA.

　With ABEMA, users can watch highlight videos showing the best moments of the games for free. Users can not only watch MLB games on their smartphone, PC, or tablet but also enjoy captivating viewing on the big screen of their TV. ABEMA lets users enjoy high-quality video on a wide range of devices anytime, anywhere. Also, if a user signs up as a Premium member, they can watch full-match replays of games they didn’t see in real-time for one week after the game at any time and as many times as they like. Users can also enjoy unique features such as the Comments function that allows them to cheer your team on as they watch the game, the Watch from Start function that allows them to watch from the beginning even during the game, and the Missed Comments function that allows them to enjoy comments posted during the game even after the steam (*1). ABEMA will soon announce the MLB game steam schedule, commentators, and play-by-play announcers, so watch this space! (*2).

ABEMA has been actively streaming not only MLB but also Japanese professional baseball such as the “Mynavi All-Star Game 2023” and the “SMBC Japan Series 2023”, as well as various sports including overseas soccer leagues, Japan national team matches, martial arts, sumo, golf, swimming, gymnastics, and figure skating. Going forward, it will continue to strengthen its offering of various programs, including sports, expand the functions available to users, and take a proactive approach to providing highly attractive content unique to ABEMA.


(*1) The “Watch from Start” and “Missed Comments” functions are available to ABEMA Premium members. ABEMA Premium is a premium plan that allows you to take your enjoyment of ABEMA to a higher level for 960 yen per month.
(*2) The steaming schedule, content, and streaming format are subject to change without notice.

 

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