At Bat 2009 Application For iPhone and iPod Touch


At Bat 2009 Application For iPhone and iPod Touch

Live Games Coming To MLB.com At Bat 2009 Application For iPhone and iPod Touch
White Sox-Cubs, Tigers-Cardinals tilts on June 18 scheduled to mark historic launch

NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, announced today it will begin streaming full-length live games through its award-winning MLB.com At Bat 2009 application for iPhone(TM) and iPod(R) touch on Thursday, June 18. The unique addition of live baseball games will be a signature offering among the new At Bat 2009 features enabled by the new iPhone(TM) OS 3.0 update.

Beginning with tomorrow's Chicago White Sox-Chicago Cubs Interleague Play matchup from Wrigley Field at 2:20 p.m. (EDT), up to two live games per day, subject to blackout restrictions, will be included in MLB.com At Bat 2009. The other game scheduled for June 18 is the Detroit Tigers-St. Louis Cardinals from Busch Stadium at 8:15 p.m. (EDT). Shortly after the launch of live games, it is expected that MLB.com will roll out the entire slate of out-of-market games currently offered through its premier live streaming video product, MLB.TV Premium, as part of MLB.com At Bat 2009.

Leveraging standards-based http streaming technology, MLB.com will deliver high quality video with adaptive bitrate and DVR functionalities over either a Wi-Fi connection or the carrier network, providing for a truly portable viewing experience. The application also offers live audio broadcasts without blackout restrictions, a continuously updated scoreboard, MLB.com Gameday(TM) functionality, real-time video highlights and Condensed Games, a short-form video recap of the most important hits, pitches and out of every game.

MLB.com At Bat for the 2009 baseball season, including the entire postseason, is available for a one-time fee of $9.99 from Apple's iTunes App Store on iPhone(TM) and iPod(R) touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. It remains the top-selling sports application and also ranks among the top 100 overall paid applications more than two months after becoming available.

For more information, please visit MLB.com.

Source: MLB.com

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