MLB X account references NiKo's Cologne Major win, Jab Jabich in recent posts

The Major League Baseball (MLB)'s X account made a surprise reference to Nikola "NiKo" Kovač's IEM Cologne 2026 Major win today, mentioning the Bosnian superstar's long-awaited trophy while sharing the schedule for today's regular season matchups.

The meeting of esports and traditional sports clearly took the community by surprise as evidenced by the replied, with the post even getting the official Counter-Strike account's attention.

Clearly someone within the MLB is a Counter-Strike 2 fan as this isn't even the first time they've referenced the IEM Cologne Major. On the 20th, the MLB referenced Jab Jabich, getting in the on fun everyone had talking about Spirit's stuffed animal coach.

The MLB account manager clearly has good taste as they also referenced speedrunning documentary filmmaker SummoningSalt back in early June.