Major League Baseball has announced that the first of two games in London between the
World Series Champion Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees
will take place at night local time on June 29th. The second contest will be an afternoon tilt local time on Sunday June 30th. Both games will be televised back to the United States—on Saturday by FOX (6:10 PM local time; 1:10 PM Eastern) and on Sunday by ESPN (3:10 PM local time; 10:10 AM Eastern). Both contests are treated as "home games" for Boston—cheating many Red Sox season-ticket holders out of two games at Fenway Park. The two games will be played at London's Olympic Stadium—the home venue of the West Ham United soccer team of the
English Premier League (EPL). Red Sox owner
John Henry also owns EPL's Liverpool franchise. Both
Jackie Bradley, Jr. and
CC Sabathia are in London this week promoting the games for
MLB. These will be the first
MLB games ever played in Europe, and are an effort to help globalize the appeal of America's "pastime".
