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KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 If you\u2019re considering purchasing the Kansas City Royals\u2019 new streaming service, Royals.TV, you can get a free preview of what\u2019s to come for the 2026 season on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

While much of the Royals\u2019 Spring Training games in Surprise, Arizona are not broadcast, fans can watch Thursday night\u2019s game for free, the Royals say. The Royals will be taking on the Texas Rangers, with first pitch set for 7:05 p.m. at Surprise Stadium.<\/p>\n

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To watch, log in or sign up with an MLB account on the MLB App or MLB.com, and select the game from there. No credit card will be required, and MLB accounts are free to set up if you don\u2019t have one already.<\/p>\n

In addition to play-by-play announcer Jake Eisenberg and analyst Rex Hudler, Thursday evening\u2019s game will feature the debut of Royals.TV reporter Bridget Howard<\/strong><\/a> after the team announced her hiring on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Fans will also get to see Royals ace toe the slab during Thursday\u2019s game\u2013 he\u2019s set to make his second start of this year\u2019s Spring Training. Other Royals to keep an eye on for Thursday\u2019s matchup are second baseman Jonathan India, catcher Carter Jensen, first baseman Josh Rojas and outfielder Lane Thomas.<\/p>\n

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If you can\u2019t watch the game Thursday night, or if one game isn\u2019t enough of a sample to decide whether or not to purchase Royals.TV for the upcoming season, there will be three other free games this spring as well.<\/p>\n

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The Royals announced that March 12\u2019s game vs. the San Diego Padres, March 13\u2019s game vs. the Arizona Diamondbacks and March 17\u2019s game vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers will also be free to watch. However, the Padres game will be a San Diego broadcast.<\/p>\n

For more information on Royals.TV, click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 If you\u2019re considering purchasing the Kansas City Royals\u2019 new streaming service, Royals.TV, you can get a free preview of what\u2019s to come for the 2026 season on Thursday evening. While much of the Royals\u2019 Spring Training games in Surprise, Arizona are not broadcast, fans can watch Thursday night\u2019s game for free, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2314938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22385,322437,360072,448486,448487,313841,430682,43627,423377,354105,25866,335507,347943,416135,311276,307792,22091],"class_list":["post-2314937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-carter-jensen","tag-free-games","tag-game-for-free","tag-jonathan-india","tag-josh-rojas","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-lane-thomas","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-spring-training","tag-surprise","tag-texas-rangers","tag-the-royals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Considering-RoyalsTV-Watch-Royals-vs-Rangers-for-free-on-Thursday.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314939,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314937\/revisions\/2314939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}