The 2028 Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles, with baseball already being announced as one of the sports on the schedule. It marks the seventh time that baseball will be featured in the Olympics and the first since the 2020 games, when Japan defeated the United States to win the gold medal. Unlike previous years when mostly collegiate and Minor League players represented the United States baseball team, there is growing optimism that Major Leaguers will be able to participate in the 2028 Summer Olympics.
MLB and the networks pre-determine the World Series dates and want them locked in ahead of time, which doesn't allow the natural flow of the LCS games to dictate when the final clash begins. Instead, the possibility of the most extreme scenario is prioritized in case the league with the later start date in the LCS goes seven games, and then there's a postponement of Game 6 or 7, and then the road team in that series has to travel to a new destination.