Three months after London announced plans to host Major League Baseball games in 2023, 2024 and 2026, the city now finds itself smack in the middle of the Route 66 rivalry.
The Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, National League adversaries separated by 300 miles of highway, will play a two-game set in the British capital on June 24 and 25 of next year, the commissioner's office and players' union announced Thursday.
The resumption of the London Series, as it is known, is part of MLB's continued effort to grow the game overseas after previously holding a pair of sold-out Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees games at the West Ham United grounds in 2019.