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).