The 2025 regular season begins!
The Cincinnati Reds begin their quest to take the baseball world by storm in 2025 by first hosting the San Francisco Giants, long ago their rivals in the NL West. 4:10 PM ET on Thursday, March 27th in Great American Ball Park is the time and place to catch the first pitch of the season, with the rest of the series picking back up on Saturday and culminating Sunday afternoon.
The Giants enter year two of the Bob Melvin Era, the manager leading the club to a disappointing 80-82 record in 2024 that resulted in a major overhaul within the organization at season’s end. Out went President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi after over six years at the club, with former team legend and future Hall of Famer Buster Posey being promoted to take his place.
They splashed big cash on free agent shortstop Willy Adames, himself a veteran of tormenting the Reds. In came fellow future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander to augment the starting rotation, but the rest of their offseason seemed eerily similar to that of the Reds in that they seem to be banking big on better output from the roster they had in place this time a year ago. That includes the big money signing of Jung Hoo Lee, who was limited to just 37 games in 2024 due to injury after signing a $113 million deal to anchor their outfield.
Probable Pitchers
Hunter Greene (9-5, 2.75 ERA, 3.47 FIP, 169/57 K/BB, 150.1 IP in 2024) vs. Logan Webb (13-10, 3.47 ERA, 2.95 FIP, 172/50 K/BB, 204.2 IP in 2024)
How to Watch
This is where things get interesting for 2025.
If you’ve been stuck with cable while in the Reds TV market for the last however long frustrating period, you know that your service has been spotty at best. On top of that, ditching cable for streaming means you ran headlong into MLB’s arcane blackout rules, with only some sneaky VPN action allowing you to watch the team of your region while within said region.
That’s now different.
Since FanDuel Sports took over from the defunct Diamond/Bally group, they’ve brought in-market streaming with no blackouts for Reds fans. Yeah, now you can watch all Reds games from Cincinnati or Lexington or Hamilton or wherever with the blackouts of Fred Manrob now long gone.
You can find your way to this by clicking that red link to the right of this particular paragraph, and a quick and easy signup means you can stream today’s Reds/Giants game from your phone, laptop, tablet, whatever while in your pool, on your lawnmower, or while in your favorite local Cubs bar to troll.
First pitch is set for 4:10 PM ET on FanDuel Sports, though you can also stream this through NBC Sports Bay Area if you’re out of market. Both streams should be viewable via MLB.tv per usual, too. If that sounds too confusing, check out the chart below for additional information.
Turn on. Tune in. Go Reds.