Guardians Offering Free Tickets to GuardiansTV Subscribers After Opening Day Streaming Snafus

That’s just a bunch of words and not Kyle Manzardo almost hitting for the cycle, in case you were wondering Credit: X/Screenshot

As Major League Baseball kicked off the 2025 season Thursday with a full slate of opening day action, fans eager to see their favorite teams via the MLB.TV app and/or through one of the many new direct-to-consumer streaming options like CLEGuardians.TV were greeted not with game action but myriad error messages, faulty blackout restrictions, crashes and more.

MLB and the Guardians, recognizing that starting the season with a product that resembles the Bally Sports App isn’t good for business, are offering those who signed up four free upper deck tickets to a game in April or May (excluding the sold-out home opener) according to an email on Friday morning. Details for those who qualify will follow next week.

“We recognize despite the excitement for the start of the Guardians 2025 season, the debut of CLEGuardians.TV had some technical issues early in yesterday’s game. There was a temporary outage impacting live game streams across the league and MLB.TV that was resolved as soon as possible,” the email read while apologizing for the inconvenience and thanking fans for their patience.

GuardiansTV runs $19.99 a month or $99.99 for the year.

It wasn’t just touch and go on the streams for Guardians fans hoping to watch yesterday’s affair against the Royals. The team and league announced only hours before first pitch that agreements had been reached with various cable and satellite providers to broadcast games this year following the bankruptcy proceedings of Bally Sports’ parent company Diamond Sports Group left the team without a permanent television home.

The Guardians, if you missed it due to any of those reasons, proved victorious in extra innings.

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