The Boston College Eagles will host the University of Miami Hurricanes at Fenway Park on Sunday, April 27, for the 13th annual ALS Awareness Game honoring former Eagles baseball captain Pete Frates. First pitch is scheduled for 12 p.m. EDT.
This marks Boston College’s sixth appearance at Fenway Park. The annual event pays tribute to Frates, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2012 and passed away in 2019 at age 34. It raises awareness and funds for the Peter Frates Foundation, which supports ALS patients and their families with the cost of specialized home care.
Bigger than baseball ❤️3️⃣
The mission to #kALS lives on through Pete Frates' legacy.
Birdball honors that mission in the ALS Awareness Game, returning to @fenwaypark on Sunday.
All proceeds go directly to the @PF3Foundation ⤵️
🎟️ https://t.co/1KfOGM9whL pic.twitter.com/GmruVDhYPJ— Boston College Baseball (@BCBirdBall) April 24, 2025
According to the program’s website, “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.”
The first ALS Awareness Game at Fenway was held in 2017, with Boston College defeating NC State 8-3. In 2018, the Eagles fell 13-7 to Florida State in front of a record ALS crowd of 5,433. The game returned to Fenway in 2022 following a three-year hiatus and will be played there for the fourth consecutive year.
Boston College enters the weekend with a 21-20 overall record and a 9-12 conference mark under head coach Todd Interdonato, placing them 12th in the ACC standings. Miami holds a 24-18 overall record and is 9-9 in ACC play, tied with Virginia for eighth place under second-year head coach J.D. Arteaga.
The first two games of the series will take place at Eddie Pellagrini Diamond in Brighton, Massachusetts, with game one scheduled for Friday, April 25, at 4 p.m. EDT.
The Hurricanes have a storied history, winning four national championships (1982, 1985, 1999, 2001) and appearing in 25 College World Series. They captured their only ACC Tournament title in 2008. The program has four inductees in the College Baseball Hall of Fame: former head coach Ron Fraser (2006), pitchers Neal Heaton (2008) and Alex Fernandez (2014), and outfielder Mike Fiore (2014). Arteaga is the 10th head coach in the program’s 80-year history.
Boston College has reached the College World Series four times—1953, 1960, 1961, and 1967—and has appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 1949, 1953, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1967, 2009, 2016, and 2023.
The 2025 ACC Baseball Championship will take place from May 20–25 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, North Carolina.
As of April 20, 2025, six ACC programs are ranked in the D1Baseball.com Top 25: Clemson University (No. 2), Florida State University (No. 4), North Carolina (No. 8), Louisville (No. 19), Georgia Tech (No. 24), and NC State (No. 25).
World Baseball Network’s Top 25 College Rankings have Clemson at No. 2, North Carolina at No. 3, Florida State at No. 8, NC State at No. 11, Georgia Tech at No. 23, and Duke University at No. 25.
This April 1994, file photo shows an aerial view of Boston’s Fenway Park of the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fenway’s opening on April 20, 1912, when they host the New York Yankees. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
