The Philadelphia Phillies head to Dyersville, Iowa tonight for the third installment of MLB at Field of Dreams, a regular season game unlike anything else on the schedule, played on a diamond built directly into a working cornfield beside the site where the 1989 Kevin Costner film was actually shot. First pitch against the Minnesota Twins is set for 7:30 p.m. ET, with the game streaming exclusively on Netflix rather than a traditional broadcast network, part of the streaming platform’s growing push into live sports.

A Brand New Ballpark Built to Feel Like the Old One

Tonight’s game is the first played at a completely rebuilt version of the Field of Dreams site. The original MLB diamond, constructed as a temporary venue back in 2021 and used again in 2022, has been replaced by a permanent, roughly 8,000 seat stadium built about a quarter mile from the movie’s original diamond, which still stands untouched nearby. The new facility carries true major league dimensions and seats around 4,200 fans in fixed seating, with additional bleacher capacity making up the rest. Beyond tonight’s game, the venue has been designed as a lasting destination for youth baseball tournaments and will become the future home of the Dyersville Dreamers, an expansion franchise set to join the Northwoods League in 2027.

MLB officials have said they worked deliberately to preserve the visual character that made the original temporary venue so distinctive, keeping the corn close enough to the field that players still walk out through the stalks the way the film’s characters famously did. Jeremiah Yolkut, MLB’s senior vice president of global events, has described that continuity as central to the redesign, ensuring the permanent version still delivers the same sense of baseball emerging out of the cornfield rather than simply relocating the spectacle to a conventional ballpark.

Costner’s Voice, and a Broadcast Built Around the Movie

Netflix has built its coverage specifically around blending live baseball with references to the film that made the site famous in the first place, and Kevin Costner, who played Ray Kinsella in the original movie, is confirmed to lend his voice to the broadcast presentation. Netflix executives have kept exact details of his involvement under wraps, but have made clear the movie’s presence will run through the broadcast rather than serving as a one time cameo. Pregame coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. ET, a full hour before first pitch, giving Netflix room to build out the kind of cinematic, nostalgia driven presentation that has become the event’s signature since it first began.

Rules Built for a Field Like No Other

Because the Dyersville venue operates so differently from a standard major league ballpark, MLB has put several temporary adjustments in place specifically for tonight. Both the Phillies and Twins have been granted an extra position player on their active rosters to account for the unusual travel and playing conditions the trip requires. The league’s Automated Ball Strike challenge system, which allows batters and catchers to contest close calls at other ballparks this season, is not installed at the Iowa site, meaning every ball and strike call tonight rests entirely with the umpiring crew, a genuinely old school wrinkle for a modern MLB game. Veteran umpire Bruce Dreckman, an Iowa native, is part of that crew, adding a hometown touch to a night already built around nostalgia.

The Phillies enter the night about as well suited to that no challenge system as any team in baseball could be, having posted the fewest catcher initiated ABS challenges in the majors this season, a reflection of a pitching staff and catching corps that has generally trusted its own eyes and old fashioned pitch framing over the league’s newer technology anyway.

Real Stakes, Retro Uniforms, and an Unusual Schedule

Despite the spectacle surrounding it, tonight’s game counts fully in the standings and serves as an official home date for the Twins, part of a three game series between two clubs both working to solidify their position in a crowded postseason picture. After tonight, both teams get an unusual scheduled off day Friday specifically to allow travel from rural Iowa up to Minneapolis, where the series resumes at Target Field on Saturday. Both clubs will take the field tonight in specially designed, era specific retro uniforms honoring their franchise histories, adding another visual layer to a night already built around nostalgia, and more than 25 Hall of Famers are expected on hand for a pregame ceremony ahead of first pitch.

Demand for a piece of the night has been intense given the ballpark’s limited capacity. With only 8,000 seats available and every ticket sold directly through MLB rather than a traditional box office, secondary market prices have climbed accordingly, with the cheapest available seats hovering around 577 dollars and premium left field locations near the cornfield reportedly approaching 4,000 dollars. Weather remains the one variable nobody involved can control, with forecasters tracking roughly an 80 percent chance of rain across the Dyersville area this evening. Should the game be postponed, MLB has said both teams will remain in Iowa and play a makeup game Friday afternoon rather than pushing the series entirely, preserving at least one shot at seeing the Phillies play baseball in a cornfield before the calendar moves on. The event has already had its own opening act this week, with the Triple-A Iowa Cubs beating the St. Paul Saints 6-3 on Tuesday night in the site’s minor league tune-up game, a fitting warmup for a ballpark that has spent four years waiting for the majors to come back through the corn.