{"id":76148,"date":"2025-08-17T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76148\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:45:09","slug":"sights-and-sounds-from-the-2025-mlb-little-league-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76148\/","title":{"rendered":"Sights and sounds from the 2025 MLB Little League Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, for the eighth straight season, mid-August major league baseball will be played in a ballpark over 150 miles away from the closest MLB stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d08426cc-bf13-5d7b-5217-6d4662019bc6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56d60582-088f-6848-5180-1fb04440cf87\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a>&#8216; Sunday Night Baseball is notable for plenty of reasons on the field &#8212; both teams are holding onto leads of less than two games in the race for their respective league&#8217;s wild card spots in the upcoming postseason. But it&#8217;s also notable because the contest will mark the MLB&#8217;s annual Little League Classic, with New York and Seattle facing off from Journey Bank Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45967123\/mlb-2025-little-league-classic-mariners-mets-mlb-stars-special\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1532883_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45967022\/mlb-2025-little-league-world-series-mets-mariners-little-leaguers\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1531757_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>The game will mark a culmination of the league&#8217;s Players&#8217; Weekend event, which allows athletes to tap into creative inspirations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45983311\/mlb-players-weekend-best-2025-bats-cleats-stories-juan-soto-bryce-harper-mookie-betts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">customizing their gear<\/a>. The Little League Classic connects the game&#8217;s major league players of today with those hoping to be the players of the future, by bringing MLB baseball to the site of the currently-ongoing Little League World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Star Mariners catcher <a data-player-guid=\"6c27dcb5-a741-d526-b5ac-f3988e288a70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41292\/cal-raleigh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Raleigh<\/a> honored that ethos of the event with his chest protector for the game, which features a collage of photos from his Seattle teammates in their own Little League days. Raleigh&#8217;s nostalgic gear headlines the top sights and sounds from a fun scene in Williamsport:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753189507_289__end_rule.png\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Sunday, for the eighth straight season, mid-August major league baseball will be played in a ballpark over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-76148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}