How to watch the St. Louis Cardinals in 2025: Schedule, broadcast info, blackout rules and national games

A hazy springtime sun beams off the arch, and sweet whiffs of barbecue carry throughout the city.

Its Redbirds season.

You can find us in St.

Louis, rollin on dubs.

No National League club has more championships than the St.

Louis Cardinals, who last unfurled a world title in 2011, but the franchise hasnt made it past the postseasons wild-card round in five years.

Somethings got to give, even if its all relative for one of baseballs winningest brands.

At least the Cards have a core of developing batters (Brendan Donovan, Masyn Winn, Lars Nootbar, Jordan Walker and Victor Scott II are all age 27 or younger).

Advertisement And no matter what, Cardinals baseball itself carries such dense history: the glory of Stan Musial, the evergreen Jack Buck, a backflipping Ozzie Smith and a raucous Big Mac Land .

Somewhere in Missouri, David Freese takes a curtain call .

Here is our best effort at explaining the teams broadcast offerings, forthcoming national TV schedule and the ever-evolving rules around MLB streaming.

Make sure youre following the team in your feed.

Katie Woo covers these Cards for The Athletic with diligence and care, even when the going gets tough .

How to stream regional St.

Louis Cardinals broadcasts in-market Fubo is a cable-cutter streaming platform that provides local and national channels with add-on sports packages.

Any game on FanDuel Sports Network, ESPN, Fox or MLB Network can be streamed here (more on those below).

TBS games cannot.

What you need to watch these games: The pro plan starts at $84.99 monthly, with an extra charge for 4K ultra-HD.

For more, there is the MLB.TV add-on , which streams every out-of-market game for $29.99 a month, and the sports lite package (with MLB Network) for $9.99 a month.

Every MLB team has a regional sports network (RSN) with exclusive carriage for local broadcasts.

The newly re-branded FanDuel Sports Network Midwest is St.

Louis RSN for 2025; it was previously known as Bally Sports Midwest from 2021-24, and under the Fox umbrella dating back to 1996.

Chip Caray has been the franchises play-by-play guy since 2022.

His grandfather, revered St.

Louisan and Hall-of-Fame broadcaster Harry Caray, anchored Cardinals games from 1945-69 before voicing the Cubs at the end of his career.

The legacy he minted comprises foul balls in fishing nets, joyous seventh-inning sing-a-longs and multiple iconic pennant calls.

Chip, who was born in Chesterfield, is joined in the booth by Al Hrabosky, aka the Mad Hungarian, who notched two top-five Cy Young finishes as a Cardinals reliever in the 1970s.

Advertisement Jim Hayes hosts FDSNs pregame and postgame programming.

Hes been a sportscasting fixture in the city for more than two decades now.

Former players Brad Thompson, Tom Pagnozzi and Mark Sweeney serve up studio analysis.

What you need to watch these games: Fubo, DirecTV Stream (starting $80-90 monthly), FanDuel Sports Network app or Prime Video add-on ($19.99 per month or $99.99/year for a team pass).

How to watch the regional broadcasts on cable or satellite What you need to watch these games: A carrier that has the FanDuel Sports Network.

For the St.

Louis area, those include Charter Spectrum, Comcast Xfinity, Cox, DirecTV and Mediacom.

Here are the regions served for Cardinals baseball right now: A new initiative launched this year also brings select Friday evening games to public airwaves.

A total of 10 Cardinals matchups will be broadcast over-the-air, free to access with antennas, wireless tuners and the like.

While the second-half schedule has yet to be announced, here are upcoming OTA games for this spring: How to watch the regional broadcasts out-of-market Perhaps youre a Midwesterner far from home, or maybe you got hooked on Dizzy Dean as the Pride of St.

Louis.

The MLB.TV package has you covered regardless, with every regular-season inning from across the league (excluding national games and in-market games for your region).

It costs $150 annually.

Fubo offers the MLB.TV add-on for $29.99 a month.

Meanwhile, MLB Network airs almost 300 local broadcasts for national audiences, so out-of-towners can catch some Cardinals games there.

MLB Network also offers 26 unique, produced-in-house showcase games that are not subject to local blackouts.

What you need to watch these games: MLB Network for select games / MLB.TV for all of them.

How to watch the national TV games The league has partnered with ESPN since 1990; that ends this fall.

Yup, the purveyors of the iconic music are indeed opting out of their remaining baseball broadcasts.

For this season, youll still find select primetime matchups here.

Jon Sciambi (play-by-play for the archenemy Cubs) and Karl Ravech are usually on the mic, alongside five-time World Series winner David Cone and former Cards utility hitter Eduardo Perez.

Generational baseball narrator Joe Buck returned to the booth for a memorable Opening Day affair , but hes sticking with football now.

For ESPN, think Sundays, especially Sunday Night Baseball.

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Louis first-half schedule doesnt have any ESPN looks left.

The second-half slate will be announced later this summer.

Fox is where youll hear Joe Davis (voice of the Dodgers), Jason Benetti (Tigers) or Adam Amin (the NBAs Chicago Bulls) on the call.

Retired Silver Slugger catcher A.J.

Pierzynski, playoff bellwether Adam Wainwright , 1992 Rookie of the Year Eric Karros and Dontrelle Willis (aka the D-Train!) rotate in the booth.

Three Hall-of-Famers are on this network: Derek Jeter and David Ortiz during the pregame and John Smoltz for color commentary.

The Athletic s Ken Rosenthal can be seen reporting from the field, too.

Fox usually has a Saturday spot.

The ever-hot Cubs-Cardinals rivalry gets the Fox presentation on Aug.

9.

St.

Louis will also be on this channel July 19 in Arizona, Aug.

16 hosting the Yankees and Sept.

6 vs.

San Francisco.

There are FS1 Saturday broadcasts set for June 14 (a divisional look at Milwaukee) and Aug.

27 (welcoming NL Central foe Pittsburgh).

This is the Tuesday action, with Brian Anderson (Brewers) and Ron Darling (Mets) as the mainstays.

Its a stacked pre-postgame show with all-time great Pedro Martinez, 2007 NL MVP Jimmy Rollins and three-time All-Star Curtis Granderson.

TBS games can also be streamed on Max.

The playoff broadcasts add decorated former player and manager Dusty Baker to the studio.

Bob Costas was on the mic here before his retirement last fall.

No 2025 Cardinals games have been announced on TBS yet.

The purple metropolis now has MLB Sunday Leadoff games free from blackout restrictions.

Roku will have two of the teams June road games: at Texas on the first of the month, then a visit to Cleveland on the 29th.

Like with Roku, you can stream more baseball games from your smart TV.

Unlike Roku, the Apple TV+ games are regionally blacked out.

Alex Faust (also of NHL and Jeopardy fame ) is on these calls, as is Wayne Randazzo (Angels).

The Cardinals will be on Apple TV three separate Fridays: May 9 (at Washington), May 23 (Arizona) and June 27 (at Cleveland).

For national MLB games in general, think: St.

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