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2026 ALS Awareness Game Set for April 11 at Fenway Park
March 06, 2026 | Baseball
Eagles honor BC captain and ALS Champion Pete Frates '07 in 14th Annual Game
BOSTON, Mass. — The Red Sox and Boston College announced the 14th annual Boston College Baseball ALS Awareness Game at Fenway Park on Saturday, April 11 at 2 p.m. when the Eagles will host the Virginia Tech Hokies. Returning to Fenway Park for the eighth time, this game has been played annually in honor of former Boston College Baseball captain Pete Frates since his ALS diagnosis in 2012. Frates passed away in 2019 at the age of 34.
General admission tickets for the game are $15 and can be purchased at redsox.com/alsgame. Proceeds will benefit the Peter Frates Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting ALS patients and their families with the cost of specialized home care required for patient stability as the disease progresses.
ALS CHAMPION: PETE FRATES
Pete Frates '07 captained the Eagles his senior season and returned to the team as director of operations in 2012 following a diagnosis of ALS at the age of 27. A driving force behind the world-wide Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014, Frates helped raise over $220 million toward research for a cure. In the summer of 2019, it was announced that BC's new indoor baseball/softball facility would be named in his honor. Frates ultimately passed after a seven-year battle with ALS on December 9, 2019. In 2016, Frates' No. 3 was retired at BC's old Shea Field and in 2017 he was awarded the NCAA Inspiration of the Year honor. The bucket from his own Ice Bucket Challenge at Fenway Park resides in Cooperstown along with his BC hat and glove from his playing days with the Eagles.
HISTORY OF THE ALS GAME
BC played its first ALS Awareness Game in 2012 shortly after Pete Frates was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 27. The 2017 and 2018 games were played at Fenway Park. BC defeated NC State, 8-3, in 2017 and fell to Florida State, 13-7, in front of an ALS game-record crowd of 5,433 in 2018. After two years back at Harrington, the game returned to Fenway Park in 2022, and has been played there the past four years. The game will return to America's Most Beloved Ballpark for a fifth year in a row this April.
