Cleveland visits Tampa Bay for ALCS Game 2 on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 8 pm Eastern, equivalent to 5 pm Pacific. MLB lists TBS, truTV and HBO Max, plus UniMás in Spanish, for the US broadcast. Cleveland enters with a 1–0 series lead.
The scheduled game follows Cleveland’s comeback in Game 1 at Tropicana Field. It gives viewers a specific October 13 fixture to select, rather than a replay, a general baseball studio programme or a different championship series. This is a US viewing guide.
What the8pm Eastern listing covers
October’s Eastern and Pacific clocks are on daylight time: EDT isUTC−4 and PDT isUTC−7. The same scheduled start is therefore three hours earlier on the Pacific clock, without changing the US calendar date. MLB’s 8 pm listing is a schedule, not a guarantee of the precise first pitch.
MLB names Parker Messick for Cleveland and Freddy Peralta for Tampa Bay as the planned starters. Its preview highlights Cleveland’s bullpen workload in Game 1. That supplies a reason to follow the starting pitchers, rather than a prediction that either team will win.
A listed stream still has plan conditions
HBO Max’s US help page says live sports is included with Standard and Premium plans, with availability varying by subscription provider. A mention of HBO Max in the fixture does not mean every subscription has the entitlement or that the game is free.
Live sports still carries commercials, including the TV broadcast’s ads. The same help page excludes MLB postseason games in American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands. The US listing cannot be applied automatically to those territories or to another country’s rights.
Choose the actual game, then the viewing mode
In HBO Max, open Sports at the top of the screen, or on the left on a TV, and select the Cleveland–Tampa Bay game. Watch Live joins the current action; Watch from the Start begins at the opening. The documented route was checked, but playback from Korea was not tested or promised.
Before committing to a viewing option, match the game date with the account’s eligible plan and location. Once play begins, distinguish the displayed live position from a start-over stream. Later schedule changes and the confirmed result belong to this same fixture, rather than the earlier Game 1 summary.
MLB’s dated Game 2 preview and US HBO Max documentation establish the scheduled time and viewing conditions. Regional browser access was unavailable; the official US help was read through normal public navigation. No Korean playback, free entitlement or UK rights are promised.
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