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I can verify that two of these workaround do in fact work. 1. Set your TV input to "Live TV" before you launch MLB.TV. --or-- 2. Start streaming an MLB.TV game that you don't want to watch. Go back. Stream the game you want to watch.

The workaround is to rely on a third-party service to stream MLB.TV. Buy a Roku streaming stick or equivalent** and use the MLB.TV app on that platform. That works for me. ** Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick and others I'm sure.

I encourage one and all to lodge a customer service ticket with MLB.TV so as to encourage an app update as soon as possible. It's clearly a glitch with the MLB.TV app as it interacts with the LG Web OS. I have been in contact with an agent for MLB.TV and have been told that they are "escalating this (case) for further research."

The MLB.TV app on my LG TV cannot handle a live stream of a game, but it apparently *can* play an archived game. I have twice fired up archived games and watched for several minutes with no streaming trouble. Of course, I didn't pay $100 for MLB.TV to watch prerecorded baseball. I want to watch live.

I have the same problems you guys have with MLB.TV on my brand-new 49" LG smart TV. I am shocked that a 2016 model would have so much trouble with the ubiquitous MLB.TV app. As others have noted, Netflix and Amazon work fine. I can stream games for three or four minutes before the MLB.TV app crashes and the TV abruptly restarts. Sometimes the image freezes and stutters before it crashes. I have enough bandwidth and a high enough upload speed, based on my recent system tests. I successfully streamed one game: the Marlins-Mets game from Monday, Aug. 29. In the words of the MLB.TV troubleshooting page, I "power cycled" my router and TV beforehand and the stream worked. Subsequent efforts to power cycle—turn everything off and then back on, basically—have failed. Help.