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9 of the best baseball movies streaming now

From “Field of Dreams” to “Eephus,” these baseball movies are streaming now as the Red Sox open the 2026 season.

Players from the Riverdogs in “EEPHUS.” (Courtesy of Music Box Films)

April 2, 2026 | 10:50 AM

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Baseball movies have been around almost as long as filmmaking itself. The early decades of Hollywood featured multiple film adaptations of the poem “Casey at the Bat,” a movie starring Ty Cobb as himself, and Babe Ruth playing a larger-than-life ballplayer also named Babe who definitely wasn’t inspired by Ruth, I’m sure

In more recent baseball movie history, we’ve seen Kevin Costner assume the mantle of Hollywood’s go-to ballplayer, learned about the inner workings of an MLB front office through Brad Pitt, and watched Matt LeBlanc share space on the diamond with a chimpanzee. (That last one, 1996’s “Ed,” will not be making any best-of lists.)

In honor of the Red Sox playing their home opener on Friday against the San Diego Padres, here are nine of the best baseball movies streaming now — one for each inning.

(Note: Some great baseball movies like “Moneyball” and “Bang the Drum Slowly” aren’t currently streaming and are thus excluded from this list, but are certainly worth a $3 rental.)

9 of the best baseball movies streaming now

“61*” (2001): Rest assured, Red Sox fans: This visual paean to the greatness of the New York Yankees is only first on the list alphabetically. But the TV movie from Billy Crystal about the race between Roger Maris (Barry Pepper) and Mickey Mantle (Thomas Jane) to break Babe Ruth’s home run record deserves a spot. (HBO Max)

“The Bad News Bears” (1976): Walter Matthau is in his element as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic ex-pitcher more or less forced into coaching a youth baseball team. Fresh off becoming the youngest Oscar winner ever, Tatum O’Neal also brings the heat as tomboy pitcher Amanda Whurlitzer. (Pluto TV)

“Eephus” (2025): This Massachusetts-filmed movie has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and features both Bill “Spaceman” Lee and Joe Castiglione, yet most Red Sox fans I’ve talked to haven’t seen it. One of my favorite movies of 2025, Carson Lund’s debut uses the final game of a beer-league team to ruminate on the passage of time, the importance of tradition, and the emotional constipation of New England men of a certain age. (Mubi)

“Eight Men Out” (1988): With gambling scandals once again a fixture of professional sports (including the MLB), it’s edifying to see what happened to the 1919 Black Sox. In the end, not even whistleblower Buck Weaver (John Cusack) is spared from a lifetime ban. (Tubi, Pluto TV, Roku Channel, Prime Video)

“Everybody Wants Some!!” (2016): Director Richard Linklater was a college ballplayer in Texas before becoming a filmmaker, so it’s not surprising that this coming-of-age flick — about a group of teammates on the first day of college — has verisimilitude in abundance. Pluto TV, MGM+)

“Field of Dreams” (1989): You’re not going to find “Fever Pitch” or “Moneyball” on this list, so the lone Fenway Park film representation comes when farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) takes in a game with Terence Mann (James Earl Jones). Bonus: You can’t see them, but Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are in that Fenway crowd as extras. (Netflix)

“A League of Their Own” (1992): Wareham native Geena Davis is the heart and soul of this Penny Marshall film, a fictionalized account of a World War II-era women’s pro baseball league overseen by initially cynical manager Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks). ( Starz)

“Major League” (1989): Who is the best part of this slobs vs. snobs comedy? For my money, it’s not Charlie Sheen or Wesley Snipes: it’s the late Bob Uecker, whose iconic one-liners as the Cleveland Indians’ radio announcer matched his real-life calls over five decades in the same role for the Milwaukee Brewers. (Paramount+)

“The Natural” (1984): Excuse the pun, but the late Robert Redford is a natural as Roy Hobbs, a preternaturally talented ballplayer whose career is derailed by tragedy until his late-30s, when he pops up as an unknown for the last-place New York Knights. (Pluto TV)

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“Daredevil: Born Again” Season 2: Charlie Cox is back as blind lawyer turned vigilante Matt Murdock, though this time around his place in Marvel’s fictional NYC is less settled thanks to the ascendance of Daredevil’s archnemesis, Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio). (Disney+)

“From the World of John Wick: Ballerina” (2025): The search engine optimization of movie titles continues apace with this Ana de Armas spinoff, which has the “Knives Out” actress joining the John Wickiverse alongside Keanu Reeves as ballerina/assassin Eve Macarro.(HBO Max)

“Sentimental Value” (2025): Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (both nominated for Oscars) are excellent as sisters who must grapple with generations of trauma that resurfaces upon the return of their absentee filmmaker father (fellow nominee Stellan Skarsgård), who has decided to make an autobiographical film set in their family home. (Hulu)

But go ahead and skip this one:

“The Bachelorette” Season 22: Just kidding. (You have no choice but to skip this one.)

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— Kevin

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9 of the best baseball movies streaming now

From “Field of Dreams” to “Eephus,” these baseball movies are streaming now as the Red Sox open the 2026 season.