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Houston Astros Will Play 2 Games In Mexico City
The spring training games will be the Astros' first trip to Mexico since 2004.
The Houston Astros will play the San Diego Padres in two March spring training games in Mexico City as part of an effort to promote Major League Baseball in Mexico.
The official announcement was made Wednesday.
The games will be played at Estadio Fray Nano in Mexico City, the Houston Chronicle reported, and the teams will be playing only with split squads, with other spring training games going on back in the United States.
It won’t be the Astros’ first trip to Mexico. They played in Mexico City in similar exhibition games against the Marlins in 2004. They’ve also played exhibition games in the Dominican Republic in 2000 and Venezuela in 2001.
The Padres are no strangers to Mexico.
They played in Hermosillo in 2002, Mexico City in 1972 and 1981, Tijuana in 1982, Culiacan in 1997 and 2001 and Monterrey in 1996 and 1999, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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