Major League Baseball announced Thursday the complete 2025 regular season schedule along with key dates and a “Rivalry Weekend.”
Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. and MLB will see the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs begin the 2025 season with the Tokyo Series from March 18-19, 2025, at the Tokyo Dome. Japanese players Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers and Shota Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki of the Cubs will have the chance to play in their native country.
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The upcoming Tokyo Series “will be the latest installment of MLB’s WORLD TOUR,” according to a release, and “will mark the sixth time in which MLB opens its regular season in Tokyo, and it represents the 25th anniversary of the first-ever regular season games played in Japan in 2000 between the Cubs and the New York Mets.”
It will be the first time MLB is played in Japan since 2019.
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The Reds will continue their tradition of hosting Opening Day in Cincinnati and join all of MLB on March 27, the earliest opening date in Major League history, with their first game against the San Francisco Giants.
It will mark the fourth Opening Day between the Reds and Giants and first since 1999. San Francisco has won all three meetings.
According to MLB, the number of interleague rivalry games will increase from four to six in 2025. Cincinnati will host the Cleveland Guardians during “Rivalry Weekend” on May 16-18, 2025, and the two teams will meet again in Cleveland on June 9-11, 2025.
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“Rivalry Weekend” will feature “11 series between prime Interleague rivals and four other regional matchups.”
Additionally, each team will host the same interleague teams as they did in 2023. In Cincinnati, the Texas Rangers on March 31-April 2, 2025, and the New York Yankees on June 23-25, 2025, will be among the top interleague contests.
The 2025 regular season will come to a close on September 28, 2025.
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