Major League Baseball plans to return to London subsequent twelve months for the first time since 2019.
The league announced Thursday that the St Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs will play a two-sport sequence on 24-25 June 2023, at London Stadium. The NL Central opponents were presupposed to play in London in 2020, however the games were canceled thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The Cardinals are excited and honored to be a component of the London Sequence subsequent twelve months,” Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr said in a unlock. “The Cardinals-Cubs rivalry is really appropriate one of many absolute top in sports, and this may possibly possibly be bright to bring it to Europe for a original target audience to skills.”
MLB closing performed in London in 2019, when the Novel York Yankees swept a two-sport attach towards the Boston Crimson Sox in June at London Stadium. These were also MLB’s first typical-season games performed in Europe.
Chicago and St Louis contain performed worldwide games earlier than. The Cubs opened the 2000 season in Tokyo towards the Novel York Mets, and performed a 3-sport sequence towards the Montreal Expos in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2003. The Cardinals performed a two-sport attach towards Cincinnati in Mexico in 2019.
“The MLB London Sequence between the Cubs and Cardinals has been in the works for years now and we’re extremely pleased to at closing have the choice to bring really appropriate one of baseball’s ideally suited rivalries to fans in but any other nation in 2023,” Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said in a unlock.
The 2023 London Sequence is half of an worldwide slate that became permitted in the March labor settlement between MLB and the gamers’ affiliation. It also calls for London games in 2024 and 2026, the first France games in 2025, annual Mexico City games from 2023-26, an Asian opener in 2024 and a Tokyo opener in 2025.