MLB Announces Home Run Derby X Format, Dates Featuring Former Players on World Tour

Major League Baseball announced a new global touring brand called MLB Home Run Derby X on Wednesday.

MLB noted that it will hold a Home Run Derby X event in London on July 9, Seoul on Sept. 17 and Mexico City on Oct. 15. The London event will take place at Crystal Palace Park with venues yet to be announced for Seoul and Mexico City.

Also, MLB announced some of the rules for Home Run Derby X, which will feature four teams playing in a bracket format on fields of reduced sizes.

The teams will feature four players each with each of those players having a 25-pitch at-bat during a game. Two fielders will be present for each at-bat, and points can be scored via home runs, catches, hitting targets…