Baseball Night in Boston - Boston College Athletics

The 2021 Baseball Night in Boston event will be held virtually due to COVID-19 in accordance with state and local guidelines.

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Date: Thursday, January 28
Class Cocktail Hour: 6-7 p.m.
Virtual Program: 7-8 p.m.
Location: Virtual (via Zoom)

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Feature Guest:
John Smoltz, National Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher
Hosts:
Steve Buckley, The Athletic
Jon ‘Boog’ Sciambi, ESPN

Highlights:
• Tour the Pete Frates Center
• 2021 Season Preview with Head Coach Mike Gambino
• Eddie Pellagrini Award Presentation
• Peter “Sonny” Nictakis No. 8 Recognition

HOME TO:
Eddie Pellagrini (Baseball) Diamond
Boston College Softball Field
Pete Frates Center

Address: 2125 Commonwealth Ave., Brighton, Mass. 02135

The Harrington Athletics Village opened its doors in March 2018, giving the Boston College baseball and softball programs new full-time homes on BC’s Brighton Campus after closing out their tenures playing on Commander Shea Field on the Chestnut Hill campus. The facility provides both teams with state-of-the-art, all-season stadiums built to host both ACC and NCAA Championship games. The complex was formally dedicated on April 14, 2018.

The Harrington Athletics Village is ADA accessible and includes 750 parking spaces, full-service restrooms, concessions, and an athletic training space. Admission is free to all for both Boston College baseball and softball regular-season games.

The complex is equipped with AstroTurf Diamond Series and Musco LED lights allowing for night games. Both facilities feature heated benches and restrooms in each dugout, a large Daktronics scoreboard, video replay capabilities, and expanded press boxes.

The baseball facility, Eddie Pellagrini Diamond, includes 1,000 seat-back chairs with an expandable capacity of 2,500 for championship events. The outdoor cages can be found beyond the right field wall. While each baseball bullpen offers two turf mounds, a single dirt mound rounds out the Eagle’s pen to assist in preparing for away games on natural fields.

The softball facility features 300 seat-back chairs with an expandable capacity to 1,000 for tournament play. While the outfield is AstroTurf Diamond Series, the infield and pitcher’s circle features a clay fill. Each bullpen is equipped with retractable batting cages.

Phase two of Harrington Athletics Village is set to open at the start of the 2020-21 academic year. It was announced on June 26, 2019 the 31,000 square-foot building would be known as the Pete Frates Center, home to the Boston College baseball and softball programs.

The building’s namesake is a 2007 graduate who roamed the outfield at old Shea Field, captained the baseball program his senior year, and was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in March 2012 at the age of 27. He and his family made significant efforts to raise awareness and money in the effort to find a cure for the progressive disease, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. While Pete is known for being a friend to all and a man serving others, he is most known for being the inspiration behind the Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral in the summer of 2014.

The 31,000-square foot building features player lounges and locker rooms for both programs in addition to three umpire locker rooms. The space also includes an equipment room, athletic training room, strength and conditioning space, hitting tunnels/turf field, and hospitality space.

MESSAGE FROM HEAD COACH MIKE GAMBINO

FEATURED GUEST AND HOSTS

John Smoltz

A first-ballot Hall of Famer in the Class of 2015, Smoltz pitched 21 seasons in the Majors; winning the 1995 World Series, 1996 NL Cy Young and earning eight All-Star nods.

He compiled 213 wins, 154 saves and 3,084 strikeouts; pitching primarily with the Atlanta Braves for over two decades. Smoltz became just the second player in MLB history with a 20-win season and 50-save season. He finished his career in 2009 with the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals.

Since retiring, Smoltz has been a broadcaster for TBS, MLB Network and FOX, where he has called the World Series since 2016.

Jon ‘Boog’ Sciambi '92

Sciambi, a 1992 graduate of Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences, joined ESPN full time in 2010 as the play-by-play voice for MLB on ESPN Radio. He got his start in broadcasting at BC's student-run WZBC as an undergraduate.

Sciambi, who was a featured guest at the 2018 Baseball Night, began calling MLB games and college basketball games for ESPN in 2005. Beginning with the 2014 baseball season, he became the regular voice of Wednesday Night Baseball. He previously called Atlanta Braves games from 2007-09 and the Florida Marlins from 1997-04.

Steve Buckley

Buckley, the perennial host of Baseball Night, is a senior writer for The Athletic. He was previously a sports columnist for the Boston Herald for nearly 24 years. Prior to that, he was the Boston columnist for the National Sports Daily and a contributor on ESPN2.

Buckley organizes the yearly Old Time Baseball Game played at St. Peter's Field in Cambridge. The game celebrates the national pastime as it was played around the turn of the 20th century. The 2014 game honored Pete Frates and served as a fundraiser for the ALS Therapy Development Institute of Cambridge and the Pete Frates #3 Fund.