Las Vegas Valley police officers and firefighters are trading in patrol cars and fire engines for bats and gloves on Sept. 19, when they take the field at Las Vegas Ballpark for the annual Police vs. Fire Charity Baseball Game. Gates open at 5 p.m. and first pitch is set for 6 p.m., with admission free to the public and proceeds benefiting first responder charity organizations.
The matchup, first reported by FOX5 Vegas, will pit rosters drawn from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department against players from Las Vegas Fire and Rescue, the Henderson Fire Department, and several other agencies from around the valley. Fans can reserve free tickets or upgrade to a VIP package priced at $150 that includes premium seating and unlimited food and drinks, according to the station's report.
Money raised from the game flows to two specific causes: the Law Enforcement Assistance Fund and Sin City FD Sports, per the same account. The Law Enforcement Assistance Fund, known as LEAF, provides an immediate $20,000 cash benefit to families of officers killed in the line of duty, according to the Las Vegas Police Protective Association. The fund also covers full college educations, annual $5,000 academic scholarships, and holiday gifts for surviving children of fallen officers.
How LEAF Keeps Overhead at Zero
LEAF is funded internally through voluntary, recurring payroll deductions from Police Protective Association members, which the union says allows the charity to operate without administrative payroll costs pulled from public or member donations. That structure means essentially all proceeds from events like the ballpark game reach the families the fund is designed to help.
Sin City FD Sports, the other named beneficiary, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that organizes athletic competitions and peer networks across five Southern Nevada fire agencies — Clark County Fire Department, Henderson Fire Department, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, North Las Vegas Fire Department, and Boulder City Fire Department, according to Sin City FD Sports. Its mission centers on physical conditioning alongside firefighter mental health awareness, addressing occupational trauma among crews across the valley.
A Sponsorship Roster Built for the Cause
The game carries primary sponsorship from Eglet Law, with corporate backing from Community Ambulance, AT&T FirstNet, Firefighters First Credit Union, Alpha-Stim, Gameday Men's Health, and Renewal by Andersen, per Nevada Business Magazine. This marks the third straight year the exhibition has landed at Las Vegas Ballpark, following earlier editions in September 2024 and September 2025, also under Eglet Law's title sponsorship.
The ballpark itself, home to Triple-A's Las Vegas Aviators, opened in Summerlin in 2019 at a cost of $150 million. It holds up to 10,000 fans across 22 luxury suites and features a center-field swimming pool along with breathable mesh seating engineered to feel up to 50 degrees cooler than the desert air outside.
Part of a Bigger Fundraising Tradition
This baseball exhibition is the newer sibling to Southern Nevada's George Maloof Police vs. Fire Charity Football Game, a full-contact rivalry that dates back to 1974, was revived in 2022, and now runs every May raising up to $250,000 for local public safety charities, according to Next Door Programs. Together, the two events form a multi-sport fundraising calendar that stretches from spring football to fall baseball.
Smaller community events have joined the effort throughout the year as well. The 2nd Annual Delirious Hockey Club Charity Skate at the Las Vegas Ice Center raised $2,300 for Sin City FD Sports last month, showing how local sports and comedy venues have folded first-responder causes into their own programming, per Vegas 411.
Badge-versus-badge charity baseball has become something of a national playbook for public safety unions. Emergency responder groups have staged similar showdowns at Major League ballparks including Citi Field in New York and Rate Field in Chicago, using the games to build public trust and fund survivor programs, as Hoodline previously reported. Las Vegas's version continues that pattern on a local scale, with the Police Protective Association and fire department nonprofits leaning on a Triple-A stadium to widen turnout beyond what a football field alone could draw.
