Jr. RBI Classic Showcase coming to Compton on Saturday.

The inaugural Los Angeles Jr. RBI Classic Showcase will take place Sunday through Monday at the Urban Youth Academy in Compton.

Hosted by the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation and MLB, it’s the first competitive element of the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program’s younger Jr. RBI playing divisions.

The Jr. RBI playing divisions (ages 5 to 12), which are designed to focus on teaching the fundamentals and highlighting the fun of playing baseball and softball, serve as feeder programs for the age 13-18 baseball and softball divisions of the overall RBI program.

The participating teams are Dodgers RBI (consisting of three separate teams from the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Boys & Girls Club of Venice and Los Angeles Recreation and Parks), Angels RBI (Anaheim) and San Diego Padres RBI (San Diego).

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J.P. Hoornstra covers the Dodgers, Angels and Major League Baseball for the Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Whittier Daily News and Redlands Daily Facts. Before taking the beat in 2012, J.P. covered the NHL for four years. UCLA gave him a degree once upon a time; when he graduated on schedule, he missed getting Arnold Schwarzenegger's autograph on his diploma by five months.