{"id":724378,"date":"2026-06-12T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724378\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:24:16","slug":"mlb-announces-drive-in-theater-screenings-of-the-sandlot-with-live-games-and-fireworks-for-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724378\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB announces drive-in theater screenings of ‘The Sandlot’ with live games and fireworks for July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s no wrong way to celebrate Independence Day<\/a> as long as you’re celebrating the United States of America… but let’s be real: some ways are cooler than others.<\/p>\n

It looks like MLB<\/a> may have just dropped one of its coolest collaborations yet, especially if you’re a sports fan, a fan of the baseball classic “The Sandlot,” or both.<\/p>\n

And I’d like to think that most people fall into the “both” camp.<\/p>\n

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The 1993 classic “The Sandlot” will hit select drive-in theaters on July 4. (Photo by Noel Vasquez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

MLB announced that a handful of drive-in theaters \u2014 yes, some of them still exist \u2014 will be playing the 1993 classic “The Sandlot.”<\/p>\n

The film will be shown at drive-ins in Vineland, New Jersey; McHenry, Illinois; Blue Ridge, Georgia; and Paramount, California.<\/p>\n

That’s awesome. A drive-in movie theater is such a great slice of Americana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But, there’s more.<\/p>\n

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In addition to some “Ballpark Bites” and food trucks<\/a>, this is actually a double feature, as each theater’s hometown Big League team’s game that night will be shown at the drive-in.<\/p>\n

And, if you still weren’t convinced that this is peak Independence Day for America’s big 2-5-0<\/a>, how about some fireworks to top it all off?<\/p>\n

Yeah, I thought so.<\/p>\n

\"Drive-in <\/p>\n

We need to start making movie and a game double-features at drive-ins more of a thing. (iStock)<\/p>\n

This. Is. Brilliant.<\/p>\n

We need more of this. More sports should do drive-in double features of a classic flick and then a game.<\/p>\n

If there’s not a place I can go next hockey season to see “Slap Shot,” “The Might Ducks,” or “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” and then see an NHL<\/a> game, I will be very disappointed. Not in anyone in particular, just society at large.<\/p>\n

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I thought we were better than that.<\/p>\n

At least on Independence Day this year, we most certainly are that good, and if you’re lucky enough to live near one of those theaters, I think it might be your patriotic duty to load the kids into the wood-paneled station wagon and go see this.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s no wrong way to celebrate Independence Day as long as you’re celebrating the United States of America……\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,90476,4,17404,86174,52178,185],"class_list":["post-724378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-classics-genres","tag-mlb","tag-movies","tag-outkick-sports","tag-patriotism","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116739720373429917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}