MLB The Show 21's Free Field Of Dreams DLC Is Live Today

Sony is celebrating Major League Baseball's real-life Field of Dreams game today by recreating the film's famous park in MLB The Show 21 and giving it to everyone for free. If you build it, they will come.

The Field of Dreams stadium came to MLB The Show 21 in a free update for PS4 and PS5, as well as Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.

The actual Field of Dreams game between the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox will take place on Thursday, August 12 at the Field of Dreams movie site in Iowa from the 1989 Kevin Costner movie. According to Sony, the developers at San Diego Studio worked alongside the builders of the field itself and Major League baseball to recreate it in the game. The field being used for the MLB game is actually built right next to the one from the movie in order to accommodate for the larger dimensions of today's parks--the score of a game played on the film set would likely be astronomical.

In addition to the park itself, MLB The Show 21 will have a full week of Field of Dreams-themed content, though it was not detailed.

"I remember watching the movie with my dad back in 1989 thinking how exciting it would be to play here," senior staff environment artist Shawn Robles said. "When the opportunity arose to bring this new stadium adjacent to the most famous cornfield in Iowa I thought, this might be the only chance that fans get to experience this so we must get this right."

Head to the PlayStation Blog to hear more about how San Diego Studio went about recreating the iconic outdoor ballpark in the video game.

MLB The Show 21 has sold more than 2 million copies so far, while it's attracted 4 million total players, a figure that surely includes people playing on Xbox through Game Pass.