In what is clearly the biggest announcement in sports-related things today, Major League Baseball released the 2026 regular season schedule. Pay little attention to the footballer and hit-making musician announcing their engagement, we can talk about that tomorrow on the off day.
The Cincinnati Reds will be opening up the season at home, as is usual for the better part of the franchise’s history. And next year they will be opening things up with a 3-game series against the Boston Red Sox. The season will begin on Thursday, March 26th. There will be the built in off day on Friday just in case weather becomes a factor, before the two teams return to the field on Saturday and Sunday to finish up the series.
Here’s what the full schedule looks like:
Next year the Reds interleague series will have them hosting the Red Sox, the Los Angeles Angels, the Detroit Tigers, the Houston Astros, the Kansas City Royals, the Baltimore Orioles, the Cleveland Guardians, and the Sacramento Athletics. They will hit the road to face the Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, Cleveland Guardians, New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, and the season closes out in Canada against the Toronto Blue Jays.
If there’s something that really stands out to this particular writer when looking at the schedule is just how tough things could be in September. Two games with San Diego, six with the Brewers, seven with the Dodgers, three with the Cubs, three with Atlanta, and three with Toronto. A year from now is a long time and who knows how those teams will be at that point – but the odds are that they’ll all be pretty dang good given everything we know about them.
The schedule does not that it’s subject to change, but I can’t recall the last time that it actually was changed (other than rain outs, of course).
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