Stakes higher, price lower: MLB.TV is $9.99

It’s time for the final three weeks of the regular season, and here are 21 reasons to watch the big finish on MLB.TV — one for each day:

1. It’s now less than 10 bucks, or cheaper than watching “Sully” at a lot of theaters around the country. MLB Advanced Media announced on Monday that the yearly subscription is just $9.99 for MLB.TV Premium and $7.99 for MLB.TV Single Team.

2. Live out-of-market streams for 293 remaining regular-season games, which is still a lot of baseball.

3. Of those 293, the 15 that will all be played at the same time on Oct. 2, the final Sunday.

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4. “Airports, my hotel room, of course — I use MLB.TV all the time,” Hall of Famer and Orioles broadcaster Jim Palmer said. “That MLB.com At Bat app on my iPad and iPhone are irreplaceable. As a broadcaster, I think I do a pretty good job, but I couldn’t do anywhere near as good a job if I didn’t have MLB.TV.”

5. A potentially historic American League East finish as four clubs were separated by four games entering this week, plus thrilling Wild Card races in both leagues.

6. The four-game Yankees-Red Sox series starting Thursday at Fenway Park, where Bucky Dent hit one out nearly four decades ago and where The Great Comeback started for Boston in 2004. Who knew this was going to be such a big deal again at this point?

7. “Everybody uses MLB.TV right now,” said Blue Jays reliever Joaquin Benoit, the last remaining active Major Leaguer who was in uniform for the landmark first MLB live stream between the Rangers and Yankees on Aug. 26, 2002. “It’s the thing to do right now.”

8. All those clinchers. Ten of them are coming up soon.

9. The first of those clinch celebration scenes might happen in St. Louis, with the arch-rival Cubs doing the celebrating on Busch Stadium turf. …

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