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Celebrate 14 years of MLB.TV with $9.99 subscription
- Updated: August 26, 2016
MLB.TV Premium is now available for a limited-time offer of just $9.99 for the rest of the year to celebrate today’s 14th anniversary of the first live video stream of a Major League Baseball game, between the Rangers and Yankees on Aug. 26, 2002.
It is only fitting that the last active MLB player standing from that game — Blue Jays reliever Joaquin Benoit — says he is now a regular user of the leading sports technology that grew out of that landmark event in broadcasting history.
“Everybody uses MLB.TV right now,” Benoit said at the start of Toronto’s current homestand. “It’s the thing to do right now.”
Benoit, the durable 39-year-old right-hander, became a trivia answer as the last remaining active player who was in uniform on that Monday afternoon at Yankee Stadium when Alex Rodriguez — his Rangers teammate then — recently announced his retirement.
Benoit was a starting pitcher sitting in the Rangers’ bullpen as that day game was presented to about 30,000 online users who watched a postage-stamp-sized media player. He had started for Texas opposite Andy Pettitte on the previous day, throwing 6 2/3 strong innings to pick up his third victory as a rookie out of Santiago, Dominican Republic.
“It’s a lot of good … memories,” Benoit said, thinking back to that era. “Facing the Yankees for the first time, I had a great outing against them. It was like six or seven innings against them, and I got a win. It was exciting, something to tell your kids and grandkids later in life.”
On that Monday, the Yankees were running away from Boston in the American League East in their bid to return for a fifth consecutive World Series appearance (the Angels would win the AL and the World Series that year), and that day game was …
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