MLB TV Outage Caused Chaos on Opening Day

Baseball fans weren't happy with this one.

Yankee Stadium on Opening Day. / Brad Penner-Imagn Images

The 2025 MLB season officially began on Thursday, and while the first game of the afternoon began with Joe Buck on the call of a matchup between the New York Yankees and Milwaukee Brewers on ESPN, the remaining 10 games aired on local broadcasts—calling on MLB TV for assistance.

Except the league's streaming app didn't come through, instead giving viewers a "Network Error: Please check your network connection and try again," message on screen.

Fans were not happy about outage, and justly took their frustrations out on social media, replying to MLB.TV's latest post on X (formerly Twitter) with over 1.1k+ responses:

#OpeningDay is here!

Watch the @Athletics and @Mariners start the season on #MLBTV for FREE at 10:10 PM ET.

(MLB x GEICO) pic.twitter.com/OOy8dtnR8T

— MLB.TV (@MLBTV) March 27, 2025

Here's a look at some more of the other reactions across the app:

MLB TV not working during literally their most important day of the year is so classic MLB.

Charging $150/year and then not providing a working product/service is quite the racket!! pic.twitter.com/EyT5TlhP4T

— Tony (@jaycTony) March 27, 2025

https://t.co/9ntMaoriqV not working on Opening Day pic.twitter.com/ttGmaoKIXS

— Liam Skiffington (@liamskiffington) March 27, 2025

It’s completely unacceptable @MLBTV is down on #OpeningDay @MLBFanSupport pic.twitter.com/jHfdpGRbX0

— Mike Nichols 💯 (@michealnichols) March 27, 2025

Dear https://t.co/0ePEzuxAV0, I despise you.

— Tyler Milliken (@tylermilliken_) March 27, 2025

MLB TV not working on opening day is crazy work actually… pic.twitter.com/5554C9LBzO

— 𝙼𝙹 🖤 (@MJTheGamer_) March 27, 2025

https://t.co/8Sy4xPANBG not working on Opening Day is a 25/10 on the That Can't Happen Scale

— Céspedes Family BBQ (@CespedesBBQ) March 27, 2025

Seeing this screen … chills #OpeningDay pic.twitter.com/VQ1e7r850I

— MLB (@MLB) March 27, 2025

This is a particularly bad day for MLB TV to have an outage. pic.twitter.com/IbbEJATt29

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 27, 2025

Well @MLBTV , sure would be nice if your service was working on opening day. Let ‘em know Bunk pic.twitter.com/mm2KHRKt8q

— Peter (@21hokie) March 27, 2025

Everyone running to X to make sure they aren’t the only ones having problems with MLB TV: pic.twitter.com/VYdPi2dmGO

— Zach (@ZPSteelers2) March 27, 2025

Me trying to stream MLBTV pic.twitter.com/C7wYZhHLe1

— McNeil (@Reflog_18) March 27, 2025

When you're paying $150 per season for the service, you have a right to be upset.

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