The Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals will play a weekend series in London this June, and ESPN has announced Michael Kay and Alex Rodriguez will serve as the network’s broadcast crew for the event.
Kay and Rodriguez have paired for the network’s alternate broadcast — The KayRod Cast — of Sunday Night Baseball, and also called a Wild Card Round playoff series together between the Phillies and Cardinals for ESPN last season. The pair will be joined by reporter Tim Kurkjian on the broadcast, which takes place on Sunday, June 25th, with coverage beginning at 10:00 AM.
Kay responded to the announcement on Twitter by saying “So excited about this!”
The trip marks MLB’s first return to London since 2019. The Cubs and Cardinals were scheduled to play one another in the English capital in 2020, but that matchup, as well as the 2021 and 2022 versions of the event, were shelved due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Saturday edition of the two-game series will also be broadcast on FOX. Broadcasting crews for that matchup have yet to be announced, however, the network aired the broadcast in its premier FOX Saturday Baseball window, sending its top crew of Joe Buck and John Smoltz to London for the game in 2019.
