Once again, good luck trying to find Thursday’s Phillies game on television.
For the third time this season, fans hoping to watch the Phillies take on the San Francisco Giants at Citizens Bank Park at 1:05 p.m. will have to log into Facebook to actually see the game. The Phillies will trot out starter Vince Velasquez (2-4, 5.14 era) to take on Giants starter Ty Blach. (3-3, 3.60 era)
The game is part of a new deal between MLB and Facebook that allows the social media giant to exclusively air 25 baseball games this season on Facebook Watch, baseball’s first foray into digital-only national baseball broadcasts in an attempt to reach a younger audience.