Perfect Game’s Pacific Baseball Championship Coming to Ontario, California

Perfect Game will hold its second Pacific Baseball Championship at new ONT Field Stadium and the Ontario Sports Complex in Ontario, California, the organization announced today. It is the first time the event, featuring eight teams of top 15u players from North America, Asia and Australia, will be held in the United States.

The event will take place from December 26–29, with pool play games on the first three days and the semifinal and championship games on the final day. Those games will all take place at the new 6,500-seat home of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Class A affiliate, the Ontario Tower Buzzers. Consolation games will be held at the under-construction Ontario Empire Complex, a 200-acre facility located next to ONT Field Stadium that is expected to open in late 2026.

There will be teams representing the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and a select group of players from South Asia. Each team will have 17 players. Teams will stay at hotels in Ontario.

Organizers expect between 2,000 and 4,000 people to attend the event. Information on ticket sales was not immediately available.

Pool play and consolation games will be livestreamed through Perfect Game’s proprietary digital platforms. The semifinal and championship games will be streamed live on PerfectGame.TV and the PGTV app. Perfect Game’s DiamondKast+ system will provide real-time scoring and statistics throughout the tournament.

Though the event is still in its infancy, Perfect Game executive vice president and general manager Brad Clement sees significant growth potential. “We believe that this could expand and have different qualifiers in different parts of the world and could end up being something similar to the Little League World Series,” he said. “It’s a long way from that, but we anticipate that other countries will perhaps get involved with this event.”

Clement’s son Jason is the CEO of Sports Facilities Companies, which helped Ontario throughout the process. (He has another son, Jeff, who took part in Perfect Game events while growing up and later played parts of four MLB seasons.)

Last year’s inaugural event of the PBC was in Hokkaido, Japan, and won by a U.S. team managed by former major league pitcher Tom Gordon.