The Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox will be the next teams to head to Williamsport, Pennsylvania to play in the MLB 2022 Small League Classic, presented by GEICO, announced Major League Baseball (MLB) and Little League on Sunday. International.
The game, which will be played on Sunday, August 21 and will have the Orioles as home team, will be broadcast exclusively for the entire United States by ESPN. The special event connected to the World Series of Small Leagues will also be available on ESPN Radio, the ESPN App and ESPN Sports. The two teams were originally scheduled to face off in the 2020 Small League Classic, but this event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As is tradition for this annual occasion, players from the Major League of the Orioles and the Red Sox witnessed games of the World Series of Small Leagues this August 21. Afterwards, the little baseball players and their family will attend the historic Historic Bowman Field for the duel between Red Sox and Orioles.
The Small League Classic was first played in August 2017, with a duel between Pirates and Cardinals, and has always been played at Historic Bowman Field. The Indians and the Angelinos were the protagonists of the 2021 edition.