Netflix has released the official trailer for MLB at Field of Dreams, the live regular season game that will stream from the Iowa cornfields on Thursday, August 13. The spot arrived this week alongside a companion feature on Tudum, and it leans hard into the sentiment that made the 1989 film a permanent fixture of American sports culture. The tagline is simple. The field is calling. Kevin Costner lends his voice to the piece, setting the stage for the game and immediately connecting the broadcast to the movie that inspired it, a nice bit of continuity for anyone who remembers Costner walking out of the corn during the inaugural game in 2021.
The matchup pits the Minnesota Twins against the Philadelphia Phillies at the ballpark in Dyersville, Iowa, adjacent to the farm where Phil Alden Robinson shot the film. First pitch is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET and 4:30 p.m. PT, with Netflix beginning special coverage an hour earlier at 6:30 p.m. ET and 3:30 p.m. PT. The event is presented by John Deere and counts as a Twins home date, with the clubs taking a Friday off day before resuming their series at Target Field on Saturday. Watching requires nothing more than an active Netflix subscription, though availability varies by country.
This will be the third major league game staged at the site and the first in four years. The White Sox and Yankees christened the field on August 12, 2021 in a game that still ranks among the most watched regular season broadcasts of the last decade, and the Reds and Cubs followed on August 11, 2022. The event then went dormant while the property changed hands and underwent a substantial renovation that added a permanent stadium along with youth baseball and softball fields. In the interim, MLB routed its August showcase elsewhere, staging games at Rickwood Field in Birmingham in 2024 and at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2025. The 2026 return marks the first game on the rebuilt grounds.
Star power is not in short supply. Minnesota brings All-Star outfielder Byron Buxton, while Philadelphia counters with the tandem of Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber. Both clubs will wear special edition throwbacks for the occasion. The Twins are going with a 1960s look, a white jersey with navy pinstripes, the navy script across the chest, the familiar Minnie and Paul sleeve patch, and a navy cap carrying the interlocking white T and red C. The Phillies counter with gray road uniforms modeled on their 1939 through 1941 design, complete with a red script, a navy cap with a bold red P in the club’s historic font, and a sleeve patch commemorating what was believed at the time to be baseball’s hundredth anniversary.
The major league game is not the only baseball on the schedule that week. On August 11, the Iowa Cubs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, will host the St. Paul Saints, Minnesota’s Triple-A club, at the same ballpark. It will be the second minor league game played on the site, following a 2022 High-A contest between the Cedar Rapids Kernels and the Quad Cities River Bandits.
For Netflix, the game caps a first season of Major League Baseball coverage under a three year agreement announced in November 2025 that runs through 2028 and delivers three marquee events per year. The streamer opened the season on March 25 with the Yankees and Giants on Opening Night, carried the T-Mobile Home Run Derby from Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on July 13, and now closes its 2026 slate with the Dyersville game. MLB Network’s production team is handling the broadcast in partnership with Netflix’s own production group, and the platform has also added daily highlights and top plays from around the league.
The timing works in Netflix’s favor in one other respect. The original film is currently streaming on the service, meaning subscribers who watch the trailer can go straight to the source material before the actual game. Adapted from W. P. Kinsella’s 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, the picture earned three Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and was selected for the National Film Registry in 2017. Netflix has listed the live event with a runtime of five and a half hours and a TV-PG rating, which suggests the pregame build will be more than a formality.
