Major League Baseball has officially announced the cancellation of the 2020 London Series. The Cubs and Cardinals had been scheduled to play a two-game UK set in mid-June.
This hardly rates as a surprise given the coronavirus crisis that has engulfed the world. Putting on MLB contests, with or without fans in attendance, will be hard enough to pull off in North America. There was little reason to attempt play across the pond when it’s quite likely a live audience wouldn’t even be permitted.
One might have expected the league to postpone the London series rather than cancelling it outright. But even a move to a later point in 2020 would’ve come with immense challenges: added logistics, difficulties of international travel, and conflict with a highly condensed schedule.
In the long run, MLB surely hopes to resume play in London. The league was able to do so in 2019. It has also held regular season contests in Tokyo, Sydney, and Monterrey over the years.
Sydney? when did they play in Sydney?
Dodgers vs D backs
I think 2014
hmm, okay
March 22-23,2014. Opened regular season there. LAD/ARIZONA
I am in utter disbelief
This is the worst news ever. I had been looking forward to this on a daily basis. I have taken a course to learn english and how to order food in London. I am so heartbroken, I cannot even ask for a refund. I have no idea how the players are taking it, especially the english ones.
You should have saved your money and hired a joke writer
Nah I liked that one. Well played sir.
Well played, old boy! I must say, that was one sticklty widget indeed! Play forward!
Mission failed. We’ll get ’em next time.
Headline in a month: MLB cancels 2020 season
Bummer. The cameras that the yankees used were still set up for the next team. Oh well.
jk.
Bit gutted about this, London Series was good last year in spite of a dodgy mound. Game 1 was a walk-a-thon and Game 2 noticably different. Was hoping to watch Wainwright pitch a game to Molina.
As others have pointed out in different ways (!) – no surprise!
Too bad, it would have been cool to kick the Cardinals butts in another country but this was obviously going to happen. Maybe next year.
You had your 4 year run, Cubs are done.
The cubs are far from done. They only lost one significant player this winter. It hurts but they’re easily the best team in the NL Central
You’re delusional if you believe that. Or you know nothing about baseball. Neither would surprise me.
Yeah future is not good there.
you also lost a pretty darn good coach. you’re new coach will be lucky to make 3 full years I’m guessing he’ll be axed towards end of 2nd year. cubs run was over last year. cubs fans will have to wait another 12-15 years to compete for the NL central and another 100 years for a world series!
Cubs suck. Always have, always will
Are you still salty over the Indians blowing a 3-1 world series lead?
Let’s go Reds!
It’s in mid June they’re not very confident that this will pass by then. Manfred has no idea what he wants to do every 3 days it seems like he changed the start date of the season.