LONDON — Now that Main League Baseball has been to London thrice, gamers have just a few strategies for future visits.
The New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5 on Sunday to separate their two-game weekend sequence at London Stadium.
Each groups arrived Thursday morning and had two off days to get acclimated. They went sightseeing earlier than getting again in recreation mode.
“I really feel like we had an excessive amount of day off,” Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor stated earlier than Sunday’s recreation. “I get it, there is a means of you have to promote the video games and stuff like that. However to me … taking part in the following day [Friday] would have been a little bit bit extra helpful.”
Lindor nonetheless referred to as the entire expertise “implausible” and essential in spreading the sport. A soccer-style knee slide by Phillies slugger Bryce Harper garnered some media protection in Britain.
Mets infielder Jeff McNeil likes an thought floated by Harper — to have extra groups come and maintain a cup-style match.
“It could be cool if you happen to had 4 groups right here — you possibly can get 5, six video games,” he stated after New York’s win. “It’s robust coming over right here for 2 video games after which flying again to the States. In case you might get extra groups over right here, make it extra of an occasion, it will be lots of enjoyable.”
This was MLB’s third journey to London up to now 5 years. There’s one other sequence deliberate for 2026. A proposed sequence in Paris for subsequent summer time was shelved.
“I would do it yearly if we might,” stated Phillies supervisor Rob Thomson, who visited a Philly-themed bar. “It has been an amazing expertise. Powerful loss at present, but it surely was an amazing ballgame for followers to look at.”
