For the first time in four years, Major League Baseball is returning to Iowa.
The Phillies and Twins will play a regular-season game sometime in August 2026 in a revival of the league’s Field of Dreams game held at Dyersville, Iowa, multiple major-league sources said. It will be a home game for Minnesota.
MLB will reveal its 2026 schedule Tuesday. The actual date of the Phillies-Twins game is to be determined.
The game will mark the first time since 2022 that big-league baseball will be played in the iconic cornfield made famous by a 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner. The temporary ballpark used for a 2021 game between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox and a 2022 game between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals was dismantled. The site has since been sold. A permanent stadium was constructed; it’s expected to seat far fewer people than the roughly 7,800 fans who attended the first two iterations of the game.
This will mark the Twins’ first appearance in one of the league’s alternate-site games since a 2018 trip to Puerto Rico. The Phillies have played regular-season specials twice in Williamsport, Pa., at the Little League Classic (2018 and 2023) and traveled to London for two games in 2024.
The league has expanded its domestic special events, staging one-off regular-season games in Tennessee and Alabama in each of the last two summers. But, with the new stadium, the Field of Dreams game may become a regular event, much like the league’s annual Little League Classic.
(Photo of Alec Bohm and Byron Buxton: Matt Krohn / Getty Images)
Aug 24, 2025
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