Yankees/Red Sox ... in London?

[Auggie]

NEW YORK -- This weekend, Major League Baseball will take its most storied rivalry across the pond, as the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will play a two-game series in London.

The historic matchup will take place after a particularly notable chapter in the rivalry, with the Red Sox defeating the Yankees in the 2018 American League Division Series en route to their ninth World Series championship last year. This season, however, the Yankees hold a 4-1 record over the Red Sox in five games while sitting atop the AL East.

The series will be played at London Stadium, a venue most famous for hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 that has been transformed into a ballpark -- outfitted with 141,900 square feet of artificial turf, 18-meter-tall foul poles and over 400 meters of fencing.

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More important for them, though, is the opportunity to spread the game of baseball to a global audience and gain some new fans who are more accustomed to seeing London Stadium as a soccer arena -- a mission shared by MLB. While MLB has previously held international matchups in Mexico, Japan and Australia, this weekend’s series will be the first regular-season games played in Europe. It’s fitting then that one of its biggest rivalries will be the box-office draw.

MORE: https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-excited-for-london-series-with-red-sox



Games between these long-time rivals must be played before their long-time fans.

[True Dough]

1. I hope the fans rise during the seventh inning stretch

and sing in unison:

Let It Be, Auggie!

[pangaia]

2. artificial turf? blechk.

[bluedigger]

3. This lifelong Red Sox fan can spare a couple games across the pond.

I'm happy to share a little of our finest baseball tradition with the British. They could use the diversion.

[OnDoutside]

4. Surprised it's not at the Oval, who have a history of putting on

quaint colonial games...