LONDON — The New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies will play in London next season, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said Friday.
The teams will play at London Stadium in the third MLB series in the British capital. The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox played in London in 2019, and the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs meet in a two-game series this weekend.
The Mets-Phillies series had been widely reported before, but league officials refrained from making an announcement until the eve of the Cardinals-Cubs series.
Manfred spoke at a press conference on Friday before the Cardinals and Cubs players trained on the artificial turf at the home of Premier League football club West Ham.
The The Yankees are committed to playing in Paris in 2025. The league has yet to confirm the French capital, but the players’ association agreed under last year’s collective bargaining agreement that MLB will host a game in Paris in 2025.
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