Orioles Picked For 2022 MLB Little League Classic

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The 2021 season whitethorn beryllium a bust, but the Baltimore Orioles already person thing to look guardant to adjacent season–a travel to Williamsport, Pa., location of the Little League Baseball World Series.

The O’s are scheduled to look the Boston Red Sox connected Aug. 21, 2022 arsenic portion of the MLB Little League Classic, an yearly crippled highlighting the planetary tourney for small league ballplayers, ages 10-12, Major League Baseball announced connected Sunday.

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“We are thrilled to person been selected to enactment successful the Little League Classic adjacent year,” Mike Elias, Orioles Executive Vice President and General Manager, said successful a statement. “Our players and unit were precise overmuch looking guardant to spending clip with the adjacent procreation of players and fans astatine the 2020 lawsuit anterior to its cancellation, truthful to person the accidental to vie against the Red Sox adjacent play astatine Historic Bowman Field portion supporting the Commissioner’s efforts to turn the crippled is simply a tremendous grant for our Club.”

Prior to their crippled astatine Bowman Field, players from the Orioles and Red Sox volition instrumentality successful a Little League Baseball World Series game. In the evening, players from the Little League Baseball World Series and their families volition get to ticker the large leaguers astatine the historical ballpark.

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The Orioles and Red Sox were primitively scheduled to conscionable successful the 2020 variation of the game, but that lawsuit was canceled owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Little League Classic was launched successful August 2017, with an inaugural matchup betwixt the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals.

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The Little League Baseball World Series is acceptable to decorativeness connected Aug. 29.

CBS Baltimore Staff

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