With the Little League World Series going on, Major League Baseball on Sunday night will feature a real regular season game at one of the oldest, tiniest minor league parks in the country, with a crowd full of Little Leaguers to watch the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates.
MLB Little League Classic 2017: Cardinals vs. Pirates time, TV channel, and live stream
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The game is the 2017 Little League Classic, and will take place at historic Bowman Field in Williamsport, Penn., just a few miles away from the site of the Little League World Series.
ESPN will televise the 7 p.m. ET game, with Dan Shulman calling play-by-play alongside analysts Aaron Boone and Jessica Mendoza, and reporter Tim Kurkjian on site as well. Online streaming is available through WatchESPN.
Bowman Field was built in 1926, the second-oldest minor league park in the country, and has seen several Hall of Famers play there, including Jim Bunning, Bill Mazeroski, Jim Rice and Nolan Ryan. The stadium was recently renovated by MLB, but even with the renovations has a capacity of just 2,500, believed to be the lowest seating capacity ever to see a major league game.
Most of the fans in attendance will be the players and families of the teams playing in Little League World Series, with all of the kids getting introduced on the field before the game.
The game is technically a home game for the Pirates, who will send Ivan Nova to the mound in the series finale. The Cardinals will counter with Mike Leake, trying to make up the 2½-game deficit behind the Chicago Cubs in the National League Central.
Little League Classic info
Teams: Cardinals at Pirates
Site: Historic Bowman Field, Williamsport, Penn.
Time: 7 p.m. ET
TV: ESPN
Online: WatchESPN
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