The celebration will mark the 15th annual Roberto Clemente Day.
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Now Major League Baseball is boosting efforts to celebrate another of its all-time humanitarians. The league announced that the Pittsburgh Pirates and Miami Marlins would play a two-game series May 30-31 next season at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in conjunction with Roberto Clemente Day.
Clemente, who was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, spent his entire 18-year Major League Baseball career with the Pirates and finished with exactly 3,000 hits. The plane was overloaded with relief supplies bound for earthquake-stricken Nicaragua. We very much look forward to bringing 2015 Roberto Clemente Award-winner Andrew McCutchen and the rest of the 2016 Pirates to Roberto’s homeland to take on the Miami Marlins before the passionate baseball fans in Puerto Rico. The announcement came at the end of MLB’s quarterly Owners Meetings in Dallas.
The champion Kansas City Royals will host the NY Mets in a World Series rematch when the 2016 Major League Baseball season starts in April with three Sunday openers.
The Marlins and Mets last played in Puerto Rico in 2010.
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While the Marlins will be the home team, meaning two fewer regular-season games at home in 2016, the club also announced Thursday that two exhibition games against the NY Yankees have been added to the spring schedule, April 1-2 at Marlins Park. The St. Louis Cardinals will visit Pittsburgh in the first game of the year.
