The Kansas City Royals and the Detroit Tigers will play a regular season game in Omaha, Nebraska on Thursday, June 13, 2019. Honoring Omaha's baseball tradition, the first Major League game ever held in Nebraska will be televised nationally by ESPN and will be played at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha -- one day before the Opening Celebration Day of the 2019 National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Men's College World Series and two days before the event's first game.
GEICO will be the presenting sponsor of the event as part of the new GEICO Summer Series. The game resulted from an agreement between MLB, the NCAA, Minor League Baseball, the Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers and Omaha's Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority (MECA).