City Section reaches agreement to play baseball finals at Dodger Stadium

Players from Birmingham celebrate in the 2017 City championship game at Dodger Stadium.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Instances)

The Metropolis Part baseball championship recreation is returning to Dodger Stadium.

Each season since 1969, the championship recreation was performed at Dodger Stadium, a streak that reached 51 consecutive years till COVID-19 points pressured the 2020 season to be canceled. In 2021, COVID-19 points once more saved the Metropolis Part from enjoying their championship recreation at Dodger Stadium.

This season, Dodger Stadium is offered to be used on Might 28. The Dodgers solely cost the Metropolis Part for labor prices and provided use of the power for $27,543.20, the identical as 2019 and a discount from an authentic supply of $32,000.

On Thursday morning, the Metropolis Part Govt Committee accepted the deal throughout an emergency assembly, clearing the best way for the Open Division and Division I finals to be performed at Dodger Stadium.

It is going to be welcomed by college students of the Los Angeles Unified College District and native constitution colleges, who've endured two years of masks, canceled grad nights and canceled video games because of the pandemic.

Taking part in at Dodger Stadium is a perk that almost all each highschool baseball participant within the Metropolis Part has appeared ahead to for many years. Former Dodgers proprietor Peter O’Malley made it clear the stadium can be made out there as a part of its dedication to the Los Angeles group.

“We’ve obtained to maintain it going one other 30 years,” O’Malley stated in 1998.

The Division II and III finals can be performed at Birmingham on Might 27. The Open Division semifinals can be performed at USC on Tuesday or Wednesday throughout finals week.

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