Main League Baseball will return to Dyersville, Iowa subsequent season for the third Subject of Desires Sport on the positioning made well-known by the 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner.
The Philadelphia Phillies will play the Minnesota Twins within the showcase occasion on Thursday, Aug. 13 with the sport airing on Netflix.
“Main League Baseball is worked up to return to Iowa in 2026 and to ship a novel expertise to the Twins, the Phillies, their gamers, our two Minor League groups, and followers throughout the sport,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred mentioned in a press release. “We stay up for working with Netflix and creating an occasion that every one sports activities followers can take pleasure in.”
The Twins will function the house crew for the 2026 sport.
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As talked about in Manfred’s assertion, there will probably be two video games on the Subject of Desires website subsequent season. The opposite matchup will function the minor league associates of the Twins and the Chicago Cubs, the Triple-A St. Paul Saints and the Iowa Cubs, who will meet on Aug. 11.
The Phillies-Twins sport would be the first regular-season sport on the Subject of Desires website since 2022. The inaugural event in 2021 noticed Tim Anderson’s walk-off dwelling run assist the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 9-8.
The next 12 months, the Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals performed in Dyersville, with the Cubs getting a 4-2 win.
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That occasion could not have featured the pageantry of Costner introducing the occasion, the gamers rising from the cornstalks to take the sphere did not really feel fairly as particular the second time, and the sport wasn’t as dramatic. Nonetheless, Ken Griffey Jr. and Ken Griffey had a catch on the field earlier than the sport, invoking the spirit of the beloved movie.
MLB didn’t play a sport on the Subject of Desires for the previous two years whereas the positioning was offered to new homeowners and a everlasting facility was constructed with fields for youth baseball and softball groups. August occasions had been performed at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama (paying tribute to the Negro Leagues) in 2024 and Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee in 2025.
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The MLB common season has featured video games and sequence performed at alternate websites since 2016, together with Fort Bragg, Japan, South Korea and Puerto Rico, whereas additionally taking part in the annual Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
