A minor league baseball workforce based mostly in Colonial Heights, Va. will turn out to be the primary workforce to ever play a “cosmic baseball” sport, as they’ll play a sport on June 1 beneath a particular synthetic lighting system with UV-reactive gear. The Tri-Metropolis Chili Peppers’ sport will make the most of black lights that can work together with the UV-reactive gear — together with uniforms, bats, caps and balls — to create a glow-in-the-dark impact for each the Chili Peppers and their opponent.

The “cosmic baseball” idea is made potential thanks partly to the workforce’s uniform vendor 3n2, hat producer Bretmor Headwear and gear producers Tucci and Wilson Sports activities Items. Lighting firm Sonaray was tasked with creating black lights highly effective sufficient to play beneath to be able to make the idea viable.

The “cosmic baseball” sport places a very new twist on enjoying video games at night time, and in addition helps put a comparatively new baseball workforce on the map. The Tri-Metropolis Chili Peppers, a collegiate summer season baseball workforce, first entered the Coastal Plain League in 2021 and performs its dwelling video games at Shepherd Stadium in Colonial Heights.

Along with June 1, the workforce can be planning to carry cosmic baseball video games on June 15, 28, and July 20.