It’s fairly common to see celebrities in attendance at sporting events. But on Monday, two celebrities in particular were seemingly hard at work while also getting to enjoy the live action at Wrigley Field.
Hollywood collided with the sports world during the weekend series between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field when Alan Ritchson and Maria Sten, stars of the hit drama series Reacher, were seen sitting together at the game with a camera crew closely following their interaction on the Marquee Sports Network broadcast.
On the Cubs broadcast, Cubs broadcasters Alex Cohen and Jim Deshaies spoke over what appeared to be Ritchson and Sten filming for the show with a camera directly in their face, which was shared on the Front Office Sports Instagram page.
“You see the big guy there in the middle, that’s Alan Ritchson,” said Cohen. “He’s got a camera on him. Maria Sten, the woman with the ponytail in the Cubs hat. They are filming Reacher. Or at least the spin-off to it.”
“I have seen Mr. Reacher do his thing,” added Cubs color analyst Jim Deshaies. “Beats up a lot of people.”
As Cohen alluded to, it’s unclear whether this scene being filmed by Ritchson and Sten is for the fourth season of Reacher, which doesn’t currently have a release date, or if it is for the Reacher spin-off show centered around Sten’s character called The Neagley Show, which is expected to premiere late in 2025.
Either way, fans of the Reacher universe can expect to see some Chicago Cubs content in the near future. Though if either of Ritchson or Sten’s characters are Cubs fans, they will have been in for an unfortunate game to watch, as it was the Marlins that came away with an 8-7 victory.