USL Championship side Orange County SC has signed 14-year-old Francis Jacobs to a multiyear professional contract, the club and the player have told ESPN FC.

Jacobs, who projects as a central midfielder, signed with OCSC on July 26 at 14 years, four months and 29 days, making him the youngest American male to sign a professional soccer contract in the U.S.

Earlier this year, 13-year-old Olivia Moultrie effectively began her professional career by signing on with sports agency Wasserman Media Group as well as an endorsement deal with Nike. She has since been training with the NWSL's Portland Thorns.

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Jacobs will eligible for selection for next weekend's game against the Las Vegas Lights, though OCSC manager Braeden Cloutier told ESPN FC it was unlikely that Jacobs would play.

"I just want to make sure we're doing this at the right pace and the right time," he said about playing Jacobs.

If Jacobs does see the field, he will become the youngest American to play in a professional league match.

"I'm pretty excited just because I've worked really hard throughout the years to get to this point, and the guys are really cool on the team," Jacobs said via telephone. "So it's pretty exciting to join a team you really like, and I'm looking forward to the future."

OCSC GM Oliver Wyss told ESPN FC that Jacobs has been training with the club's first team since May, and during that time the 5-foot-11 midfielder showed he could compete playing against men who, in some cases, are more than twice his age.

"As a 14-year-old he's already more mature than most of the teenagers that we come across who play for us," Wyss said. "I think that has a dramatic impact because his coachability, his smarts, his intelligence, are very, very high for a young man. That also played into the equation.

"If you just looked at age, it's a big step to make. But the reality is he's trained with us all summer long. We have the chance to evaluate him continuously, and we feel he is ready for the next step. We will give him the time and it's not something where we rush into it. It's ultimately up to Francis to prove that he's ready to make a game appearance for our first team."

A product of nearby Laguna Beach, Jacobs spent time playing with local club Irvine Strikers before joining OCSC earlier this year. Jacobs had training stints with FC Koln and Bayer Leverkusen, but the option of staying close to home made joining OCSC the right step for the player and his family.

Jacobs will attend a local private school in the afternoons in order to continue his education.

"He's had opportunities to play abroad," said Jacobs' father Jeff. "But I didn't think that would have worked out for him because he's 14, and taking him out of his nest was not the right move at this point. What OCSC has offered couldn't be any better.

"We live very close by. Francis' life will stay intact in terms of friends and normalcy. And OCSC has an amazing training environment, an amazing team, and the staff has assured my wife and I that they're going to look after him and do what's best for him."

The next step will be for Jacobs to prove his worth in practice ahead of this weekend's match.

"It will be really exciting," Jacobs said about possibly making his debut. "But it comes down to how you play in the practices. It's the coach's decision of which lineup he wants to put out there."

Christian Pulisic will have woken up on Monday morning knowing precisely what awaits him in the Premier League with Chelsea. After a bruising welcome to English football on Sunday as a substitute during Chelsea's 4-0 defeat at Manchester United, the only positive spin for the United States forward is that the magnitude of his challenge is now crystal clear.

During a 32-minute debut for his new team following his summer arrival from Borussia Dortmund -- having spent the last six months of last season on loan at the German club after completing a £57.6m transfer in January -- Pulisic was left floored by a Paul Pogba bodycheck and forced to chase lost causes as United raced away to complete their emphatic opening weekend victory.

While manager Frank Lampard made the worst start of any Chelsea boss for over 40 years, Pulisic was given a glimpse of how tough it could be for him to make his name at Stamford Bridge.

The midfielder is expected to make his first competitive start for Chelsea against Liverpool in the UEFA Super Cup final in Istanbul on Wednesday and it's unlikely to get any easier against the European champions. He struggled to make any impact against United's new right-back, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, at Old Trafford, and he will face another daunting opponent when he comes up against Trent Alexander-Arnold in Turkey.

At 20, Pulisic clearly needs time to adapt to his new surroundings, and under Lampard he will be given that space to acclimatise, develop and realise his undoubted potential. But Pulisic's biggest problem is one that he cannot control, and that is never a good place to start.

Rightly or wrongly, the young forward will be compared to Eden Hazard whenever he takes to the field as a Chelsea player, which is unfortunate considering that the Belgian almost single-handedly carried the club to two Premier League titles and other major honours during his seven years at the club, prior to his £88.5m summer move to Real Madrid. This is a Chelsea team in clear transition, with a new manager, and already under pressure to deliver; for Pulisic, the challenge feels greater given the price tag and the departure of the Blues' enigmatic Belgian.

Hazard was Chelsea's go-to-guy when they needed a moment of inspiration to get the team out of a hole. He didn't always deliver, but more often than not, he came up with the goods when it mattered. In 245 Premier League games, he scored 85 goals and racked up 54 assists. He also struck fear into opposition defenders and, crucially, gave his teammates the belief that no cause was lost while he was on the pitch.

When Chelsea sealed the deal for Pulisic in January they knew that, barring an unlikely change of heart, Hazard would be leaving for Madrid at the end of the season. With the club being hit by a two-window worldwide transfer ban by FIFA following an investigation into the recruitment of foreign players under the age of 18, Chelsea ensured that they had a replacement for Hazard before their star man headed off to Madrid.

But Pulisic is not there to directly replace Hazard. This is a new Chelsea team going in a new direction rather than one trying to replicate what worked last season but with new players. Pulisic is a young forward with the potential to shine in the Premier League. He is not blessed with the robustness that enabled Hazard to cope with the physical challenge of English football and is still, quite clearly, a talent in the making rather than the finished article.

Of course the comparison to Hazard is inevitable; Chelsea sold a forward (Hazard) for big money and replaced him with another forward (Pulisic) for big money. However, Sunday's brief cameo at Old Trafford highlighted their differences.

Chelsea were 1-0 down when Pulisic replaced Ross Barkley on 58 minutes, with Lampard deploying the American on the wide left in an effort to put more pressure on United's back four. Had it been Hazard entering the fray, United would almost certainly have assigned a player to shadow him closely, but they did not make any changes to deal with Pulisic because there was no need. The game quickly passed the U.S. forward by as United upped the tempo and took advantage of Chelsea's absences -- in particular, their best defender, Antonio Rudiger, was out injured -- to score three more goals. Pulisic ended the game looking like a man who had just spent half an hour in a washing machine.

Pulisic will feel more at home at Stamford Bridge, where the smaller pitch will enable him to be more effective but he needs to make an early impression on his own terms, for his own sake, to avoid being regarded as a shadow of the man he replaced.

Hazard also had quiet games at Old Trafford, but he made amends soon enough by delivering a big contribution when it mattered. That is Pulisic's challenge. In a team going through a difficult transition, the American must be allowed to become his own man and make his own impact at Chelsea.

Cricket is in line to be included in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, MCC World Cricket Committee chairman Mike Gatting has said following an address by the ICC's new chief executive Manu Sawhney at Lord's this week.

In what would be the end to one of cricket's longest and least satisfying sagas, Gatting said Sawhney told the MCC's Cricket Committee that strong progress had been made to ensure the game is given the global platform many of its custodians want it to gain - those including, seemingly for the first time, India.

"We were talking with Manu Sawhney the ICC chief exec, and he was very hopeful we can get cricket into the 2028 Olympics," Gatting said. "That's what they're working towards at the moment and that would be a huge bonus for cricket worldwide, it would be fantastic.

"It's two weeks, that's a good thing about it, it's not a month, so it's one of those [events] where scheduling for two weeks should be fine once every four years once you do the first one. You're going to have - one hopes - a four-year period, once you know you've been accepted into the Olympics, that gives you a chance to actually shape your two weeks, so it's not as if it is butted into the schedule.

"I think the next 18 months will be very interesting as to how we do that. One of the problems has been negated, where the BCCI is now working with NADA, the drugs agency, which it wasn't previously a part of. That will help a long way towards the sport being whole, which is what we need it to be to apply for the Olympics, both men and women to play and all countries to comply."

Additionally, Gatting said that confirmation of the inclusion of women's cricket in the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games - the first time the sport has been included since Kuala Lumpur in 1998 - is imminent, following fruitful meetings between games organisers and ICC officials in recent weeks.

"I believe there's going to be a statement out in the next two days or even tomorrow just to confirm the women are going to be playing in the Commonwealth Games at Edgbaston," Gatting said. "We're hoping they're going to get the nod on that, which will be fantastic."

Among other things, the committee also discussed the security situation in Sri Lanka, following the 2019 Easter bombings, and also Pakistan, which has suffered from an almost total lack of international cricket in the country since the attack on the Sri Lankan team and ICC officials' buses in Lahore a decade ago. On Sri Lanka, committee member Kumar Sangakkara said he expected the forthcoming tour scheduled by England would go ahead.

"All countries do their independent assessments about security and the level of threat and I feel those questions have been answered very satisfactorily up to now," Sangakkara said. "I don't see that changing for the England tour but we will see discussions going ahead. I played cricket at heightened times of trouble in Sri Lanka and we've had those arrangements in place for teams to tour the country."

As for Pakistan, Gatting said that the committee was eager to see the resumption of tours to the nation after 10 years, and that the MCC would be interested in sending a touring team of its own by way of re-opening the door - final security checks pending as ever.

"We had a brief presentation from [PCB managing director] Wasim Khan," Gatting said. "As MCC, I think we can see there's some safety issues that are still there, but I suspect if those can be overcome everybody is happy, [then] I don't see why there's any reason we can't [organise] an MCC tour there, and other teams would have to make their own assessment of how safe it is to play there. One hopes it won't be long before they can convince people it is a lot safer than it was and as soon as that's the case, MCC will look at sending a touring party over."

India captain Virat Kohli revealed that he felt "tired" halfway through his innings of 120 against West Indies in the second ODI, but pulled through because one of India's top three had to bat long to get them to a match-winning total.

Kohli ended up hitting his 42nd ODI century, and was out for 120 in the 42nd over, driving India to what proved to be a match-winning 279 for 7.

"Our target is always that one of the top three has to make a big score," Kohli said on bcci.tv. "Shikhar [Dhawan] and Rohit [Sharma] have done it consistently in the past few months. I've done it when I've got the opportunity. Today, since neither of them got a big score, it was important that I stay for a longer time so that we can get to about 275-280.

"Honestly, I was very tired after getting to 60-65, but the situation was such that I had to bat long, and I had to push myself to work a bit harder for the team. If you think about the team, even if you're tired you get energy from somewhere. But it was quite challenging, also because there had been rain on the day and when the weather is like that it gets even hotter, so it was very humid too."

Elaborating on the lifestyle changes he has adopted and his fitness drive, Kohli said that not being at 100% meant you were not doing justice to your team.

"My mindset has always been simple: that I should contribute to the team in some way. If there's an important catch, I want to take it; if there is a crucial run-out, I want to make it," Kohli said. "I think every player should make their lifestyle and discipline in such a way that on the field you can give your full effort. If you are not giving your full effort on the field, then I don't think you are doing justice to your team. The way my lifestyle, training, recovery and diet is, all of it is geared towards making me contribute to the team in every way I can. So on tough days like these, when you have to run a lot for your runs, and in the field also you know the situation demands that you need to make an effort, it [his regimen] helps at those moments, and these small things can make a big difference."

Though Kohli's innings tired him, on the field he still found energy to break into a jig, at one point even celebrating with Chris Gayle when the latter went past Brian Lara's run tally in ODIs. Kohli put his good spirits down to being in a good space in his life.

"I'm enjoying myself on the field. It is a blessing [to play cricket for India]. I don't follow a typical mould that if I'm captain I have to stand all seriously," Kohli said. "I think it's important to enjoy these moments. If there's music playing, dance. Crack jokes with the opposition players too. I'm just in a very good space in my life, which is why I start dancing wherever I hear music."

Two days out from a Test match that England cannot afford to lose, a metaphorical passing of the baton took place on the Lord's outfield. James Anderson, the captor of 103 Test wickets at 23.89 on this hallowed ground, walked almost unnoticed past a press huddle beneath the Media Centre, where the new Lord of Lord's was sheepishly holding forth on the Test debut that he has still yet to make.

For the second time this season - or even the third, if you take his ODI and World Cup debuts as incremental step-ups in expectation - Jofra Archer is braced to make another Rumsfeldian leap into the known unknown.

His methods, his mien, have been so scrutinised and mined for so long, it is once again all too easy to overlook the truth of his situation. Archer is not the messiah, he is a 24-year-old international rookie whose evisceration of Gloucestershire twos at Blackstone last week can't entirely disguise the fact that he has not played first-class cricket for 11 months and counting.

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"I've got to make my debut first. If selected, I'll probably be over the moon," Archer said, with typical deadpan accuracy, when quizzed on his readiness for action. "I don't know how to feel as yet."

But when you've won a World Cup at the first time of asking, and done it the hard way too, by claiming 20 wickets at 23.05 before withstanding unconscionable pressure to close out the decisive Super Over in the most emotionally fraught sporting finale of all time, ordinary expectations no longer apply. If General Melchett were presiding over the tactics for the coming week, he'd be granting permission to get really rather carried away.

No pressure then, Jofra. It's only England's 18 years of home Ashes hegemony at stake.

"What I would say is don't expect any miracles firstly," Archer said. "I can't work miracles - I'll try to, but I don't think that's how it might pan out. I'll try my best and I can only give my best."

Nice try, but it's not going to wash. Archer's challenge in the coming days is not to play down the expectation, but to reframe it to manageable proportions.

For Australia, certainly, are ready and waiting. Justin Langer, their coach, has declared himself "really curious" to see how Archer goes, speaking in bullish tones of getting him into his "second, third and fourth spells" and testing his physical endurance in the wake of a much-reported side strain that left him in "excruciating" pain at the latter end of his white-ball stint (but which, he now reports, is "never better" after a week's R&R in Barbados).

And yet, not for the first time this summer, Archer has exuded a sense of belonging ahead of his grand unveiling, and one that belies his softly spoken responses.

Part of that, you sense, stems from his obvious delight in doing what he does for a living. After all, it is not for nothing that Archer's "Jofradamus" reputation precedes him in the media - his litany of archival tweets wouldn't be capable of "predicting" each and every event in this summer's itinerary were it not for the fact that he has clearly been emotionally invested in the rhythms of his sport for years.

And as a consequence, he may not be able to tell you yet how he will feel to walk through the Long Room in his whites to open the bowling in a Lord's Ashes Test, but you can be surer than most debutants that he'll have an idea of what to do when he gets there.

"I'm probably more ready than I've ever been," he said. "I've bowled 50 overs in one game already for Sussex [on his Championship debut against Essex in August 2016] and I'm usually the one bowling the most overs anyway. I think Justin Langer has another thing coming."

And therein lies an under-appreciated truth about the groundwork to Archer's career. For all that he has made his mark globally with his pace and variety in 24-ball outings on the global T20 circuit, it was his red-ball education for Sussex that earned him those opportunities in the first place. And for all that his three first-class seasons at Hove pale in the public imagination compared to his subsequent white-ball exploits, a haul of 131 wickets at 23.44 is not an insubstantial body of work.

"I've played a lot more red-ball than I have white-ball. I do think it's my preferred format anyway," he said. "Test cricket is pretty much almost the same as first-class. You know what you've got to do, you know what your strengths are. Especially to stick with them.

"Red-ball isn't really shown on TV so a lot of people won't know, and looking at the scorecard, it doesn't really tell the full story of how a game panned out anyway. But it was actually the first format I played in when I started at Sussex. It was a bit hard to get into the white-ball team, I think I played the second half of the red-ball season and only two white-ball games."

As for the Lord's factor - such a significant aspect for your average aspirational debutant - well, without being glib about such things, it's safe to presume that the old ground will harbour nothing but happy memories following that unforgettable last visit in the World Cup final, if not serve up anything approaching such all-or-nothing jeopardy over the coming five days, no matter how many times he is sent back to the well by an insuperable Steve Smith.

"It was a really, really good day," he said. "I think it's a good thing most of the guys that were in the Test team were part of it as well, so I don't think I'm the only person that will feel that way. But when I came in today it looked a bit different. All the World Cup boards were down. It just looked normal again. It's a good ground to come back to and hopefully we can keep up our winning ways here."

Those winning ways, incidentally, don't quite extend to his only visit here for Sussex in red-ball cricket - but on a personal level he is exonerated for their 55-run defeat against Middlesex in August 2018. With eight wickets in the match, including 5 for 69 in the second innings, he not only carried his side close, but made a strong early acquaintance with the infamous Lord's slope.

"I think the slope did have a hand in some of the dismissals," he said. "If one nips down the slope it's a good ball, if it doesn't nip down the slope it's still a good ball. The margin of error sometimes can be a lot bigger than at most other grounds."

Whether that might help him to formulate a specific plan against Smith, however, remains to be seen.

"I think my ideas will be the same as the guys, it's just that the guys haven't been successful. He played really well at Edgbaston, I think he had a day out - or days out - but Lord's is a bit different to Edgbaston. Hopefully one can do a bit more coming down the slope and hopefully he gets out for 90 runs less."

Justin Langer has said that having six fit-and-firing fast bowlers at his disposal is a "luxury" that he cannot recall enjoying at any previous point of his coaching career, but reiterated that Australia must not get complacent about their resources with four Ashes Tests still to come in the space of five weeks.

Eyebrows were raised among England fans when both Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc were omitted from Australia's attack for the first Test at Edgbaston, but that selection was richly vindicated in a 251-run win that has given them the lead in an away Ashes series for the first time since 2005.

And, understandably, Langer was keeping his cards close to his chest with 48 hours to go until the series resumes at Lord's. "The same as last time, we want to keep England guessing as long as we can," he said. "We're pretty clear with the team that we think will win this next Test match, we'll see that when the toss goes up. Unless you can ask Painey [Tim Paine] the same question and he gives it away."

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The broad strategy, however, is unmistakable and ruthless - very similar in outlook, in fact, to the one that England themselves used in Australia in 2010-11, their last successful campaign on Australian soil.

Bat as long as possible, with Steven Smith leading the line at Edgbaston but the tailenders - not least Peter Siddle - playing a vital role in the first innings, and bowl as dry as possible - with Siddle's line-and-length earning selection ahead of Starc due to his tendency to go for runs in red-ball cricket in exchange for his wicket-taking deliveries.

And, in the event of attrition taking its toll in the course of the series - as it did nine years ago with Stuart Broad going lame during the Brisbane Test and Steven Finn proving too expensive for the team tacticians after Perth - ensure that the fast-bowling bench-strength (Chris Tremlett and Tim Bresnan on that occasion) is hungry and ready for action.

The condensed Ashes itinerary, Langer admitted, was having a "big impact" on the selection of their Test XI, and with just a three-day turnaround to the second Test at Headingley on August 22, it was only going to get more acute.

"We know that back-to-back Tests are always hard," he said. "We were lucky in the first Test that our fast bowlers didn't have to bowl much in the second innings, as Nathan [Lyon] bowled very well and the way the game panned out. But it's certainly something that's on our mind. It will be on England's mind as well. You've got to get through back-to-back Test matches, that's why Test series are hard, Ashes series are hard.

"Why we're fortunate at the moment is that we've got six fit-and-healthy fast bowlers. I've been coaching for about 10 years now and I can't ever remember having that luxury, but it could change like that so we're not getting carried away with it.

"The fact that we had Josh and Mitch Starc on the bench last Test match, it doesn't happen very often, so we won't get complacent with it, we'll just be happy we're in that spot."

One reason why Australia may yet name an unchanged XI lies in the success of Australia's lower order - not least Siddle, whose critical innings of 44 helped rescue Australia from 122 for 8 and give Smith an obdurate ally en route to arguably the finest Test century of his career.

"Test cricket is a big game of chess," Langer said. "I thought Siddle's batting was the big difference in the Test match, and that was one of our game plans at the start of the summer.

"We saw how frustrating it was with England's tail in the first innings, it's the same with us," he added. "You always have the strategy, the strategy of every team will be the same, but then you have to put it into practice.

"The boys have done that, the bowlers have probably hit more balls in this series than they have in their whole life. Hopefully it pays dividends, and it's not just talk about it."

Wide receiver Rishard Matthews announced his retirement from the NFL on Monday, two days after he was released by the New Orleans Saints with a "left team" designation.

In an Instagram post, Matthews wrote that he was fed up by feeling he was disposable as an NFL player and that although he will always be a fan of the NFL, he will not miss the "fakeness" or "brainwashing" that he endured in the league.

In a statement titled "No Longer Exist," Matthews wrote:

"The game has given me and family so much but that No Longer Exist ... Beating your body up over and over for groups of people to give out a small % of the earnings that they don't even need me No Longer Exist ... The endless training & hours away from my family No Longer Exist ...

"The brainwashing & dividing of culture for a small piece of jewelry No Longer Exist ... Being around too much Ego to even understand that someone has the same skin as you No Longer Exist ... People using me for Entertainment and not understanding that i Am a Black Man in America No Longer Exist

"As a receiver, people controlling your success No Longer Exist ... Being around just pure fakeness No Longer Exist ... The crowds cheering No Longer Exist ... The Touchdowns, Big Catches Fun Times No Longer Exist ... All the people that never talk to you then hit you up for tickets when they see you're close to them thinking you get them for free & act crazy when you can't get them for them No Longer Exist (lol)

"I am thankful to have become financially free but that income No Longer Exist (lol) ... It was cool being a Professional Football Player and getting to play a kids game for work I will always be a fan of the best sport in the world but for me that Kids game No Longer Exist"

On Saturday, Saints coach Sean Payton confirmed that it was Matthews' decision to leave the team, adding, "It's not for everyone."

Matthews, 29, joined the Saints in June after a minicamp tryout. But he was playing with the backup units throughout training camp. He caught one pass for 7 yards while playing 20 snaps in Friday night's preseason opener against the Minnesota Vikings.

Matthews was the Tennessee Titans' top receiver from the 2016 and 2017 seasons, but he asked for his release last year because of a diminished role and wound up catching just five passes for 24 yards in a total of eight games with the Titans and New York Jets.

Matthews also requested a trade before his final season with the Miami Dolphins in 2015 while skipping voluntary workouts, but he stayed with the team for one more season.

The 6-foot, 217-pounder has 230 career catches for 3,160 yards and 21 touchdowns in seven years.

ESPN's Mike Triplett contributed to this report.

Philadelphia Phillies starter Jake Arrieta says he hopes to have a conversation with the team in the coming days to decide whether he needs to rest to take care of a bone spur in his elbow.

Arrieta's remarks came after an ineffective performance Sunday night in San Francisco.

"I don't necessarily want to make a decision right now," Arrieta told NBC Sports' Jim Salisbury on Sunday night. "We'll have the off day Monday and maybe have a conversation on Tuesday."

The plan had been for Arrieta to pitch through the injury, with manager Gabe Kapler saying last month, "It's always worth considering if Jake at 85 percent of himself is a better option than what we have at Triple-A."

Arrieta -- who has a 5.02 ERA in his last 10 starts with a .302 opponents' average -- has not made it through the sixth inning of a start since June and said Sunday that his elbow "hurts every day."

The Phillies enter Monday nine games back in the NL East and two games back in the wild-card.

Arrieta, a 33-year-old right-hander, will be a free agent after the 2020 season. Suffering an injury to the elbow ligament through repeated outings with the bone spur would have big impact on his free agency.

Arrieta has one year left on his three-year deal with the Phillies that will pay him $20 million next season. He could also opt out of his contract this fall. If he does that, the Phillies will have the choice of voiding the opt-out by guaranteeing $20 million in salary for 2021 and 2022 -- leaving him three years at $60 million for 2020 through 2022.

The Cincinnati Reds have claimed infielder Freddy Galvis off waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays, the National League team announced Monday.

Cincinnati's Amir Garrett will begin serving his eight-game suspension on Monday to make room for Galvis on the 25-man roster.

Galvis, 29, was hitting .267 with 18 homers and 54 RBI for Toronto this season. By waiving him, the Jays will be able to give more playing time to rookies Bo Bichette and Cavan Biggio.

Galvis had signed a $4 million, one-year deal with the Blue Jays in January. Cincinnati will now hold a $5.5 million club option on Galvis for the 2020 season.

Entering Monday's games, the Reds are five games out of a playoff spot in the packed NL wild-card race.

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball will open its 2020 season March 26, its earliest start other than international games. The schedule also features a late April series in Puerto Rico between the New York Mets and Miami Marlins.

Globe Life Field, the new home of the Texas Rangers, opens March 31. This is the first new ballpark since the Atlanta Braves' SunTrust Park opened in 2017. Globe Life will be the seventh big league stadium with a retractable roof, after those in Toronto, Arizona, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee and Miami. Tampa Bay has a fixed roof.

The commissioner's office also said Monday all 30 teams could play on Opening Day for the first time since 1968. A full slate was scheduled in 2018 but two games were postponed. The 2020 regular season is to end Sept. 27, putting the World Series on track for Oct. 20-28.

The Angels host the Dodgers on July 10-11 heading into the All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on July 14 -- giving both teams a rare Sunday off on July 12.

Previously announced, the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals will play two games in London in June. The New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox will play Aug. 13 at a ballpark next to the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa. A Little League Classic between the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles is set for Aug. 23 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

The American League Opening Day games are: Yankees at Baltimore; Kansas City at the White Sox; Detroit at Cleveland; the Angels at Houston; Minnesota at Oakland; Texas at Seattle; and Boston at Toronto.

In the National League, it's: Atlanta at Arizona; St. Louis at Cincinnati; San Francisco at the Dodgers; Philadelphia at Miami; the Cubs at Milwaukee; Washington at the Mets; and Colorado at San Diego. The one interleague matchup has Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay.