LONDON — The stakes are high at this inaugural London Series.
Well, to be more specific, they stand moderately high for the Yankees, higher for the Red Sox and highest of all for Major League Baseball.
A couple of hours before the first European regular-season game kicked off Saturday at London Stadium, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said that the game’s present commitments on this new (for baseball) continent would determine the venture’s immediate future.
“I think whether or not we play in Europe in [2021] will be a product of how the next couple of years go,” Manfred said at a news conference.