Major League Baseball will return to Dyersville, Iowa next year for the third Field of Dreams Game on the site made famous by the 1989 film starring Kevin Costner.
The Philadelphia Phillies will play the Minnesota Twins in the showcase event to be played in August, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reports. Minnesota will be the home team. The exact date for the game will be revealed with the 2026 MLB schedule is released on Tuesday. However, the previous two events were played on the second Thursday in August.
MLB will play a regular-season game at the Field of Dreams site for the first time in four years. The inaugural event in 2021 featured the New York Yankees playing the Chicago White Sox. Tim Anderson hit a walk-off home run to give the White Sox a 9-8 victory.
The following year, the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals played in Dyersville, with the Cubs getting a 4-2 win.
That event may not have featured the pageantry of Costner introducing the event, the players emerging from the cornstalks to take the field didn’t feel quite as special the second time, and the game wasn’t as dramatic. However, Ken Griffey Jr. and Ken Griffey had a catch on the field before the game, invoking the spirit of the beloved film.
MLB did not play a game at the Field of Dreams for the past two years while the site was sold to new owners and a permanent facility was constructed with fields for youth baseball and softball teams. During the past two seasons, August events were played at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama (paying tribute to the Negro Leagues) and Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee.
The MLB regular season has featured games and series played at alternate sites since 2016, including Japan, South Korea and Puerto Rico, while also playing the annual Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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