NEW YORK (AP) " Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred remains hopeful the sport can play regular-season games in London for the first time in 2018. Manfred met last month with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. "I want to be really, really optimistic about it," Manfred said Wednesday before the NL wild card game. In recent years, some major league players increasingly have questioned the need to play outside their regular ballparks. "I understand that there's travel involved," Manfred said, "but if you travel from the east coast to London, it's not all that different than traveling from the east coast to the west coast, which we do all the time."

Source: New Zealand Herald October 05, 2016 23:26 UTC