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Jul 9, 2020 · The 162-game regular season will begin with all 30 MLB clubs playing on Thursday, April 1. Opening Day weekend will include a six-game schedule for April 2 followed by a full 15-game slate on...
Jul 9, 2020 · MLB announces 2021 regular-season schedule. July 9th, 2020. Major League Baseball on Thursday announced its master 2021 Major League regular season schedule, which will begin with all 30 Major League Clubs playing on Thursday, April 1. The 2021 season will mark the fourth consecutive season in which all 30 Clubs are scheduled to play on ...
The 2020 schedule greatly differed from the normal 162-game schedule. In an effort to reduce travel, each team played only nine opponents during the regular season instead of the usual 19 or 20. Teams were scheduled to play 10 games against each of their four division opponents.
Major League Baseball announced the 2021 regular season schedule on July 9, 2020. [9] A full 162-game season was played. As has been the case since 2013, all teams played their four division opponents 19 times each for a total of 76 games.
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There has long been rumblings that baseball simply plays too many games and that damages its level of interest from the long-sought-after casual fan. There are nostalgists who long to return to the days of the 154-game schedule, which was the rule of the day from 1904-60 in the American League and 1904-61 in the National League. When the American L...
So when the American League expanded to 10 teams for the 1961 season, there was no way to make 154 games work and retain the balance of the schedule (since there would be no divisional play at this point). Going back to 20 games per opponent would have still left an unworkable 180-game schedule. Reducing to 16 games against each other team would ha...
The introduction of divisional play in 1969 with the addition of four more expansion teams — the Kansas City Royals and Seattle Pilots in the American League along with the Montreal Expos and San Diego Padresin the National League — complicated things. Retaining the 162-game schedule wasn’t even unanimous between the two leagues prior to the 1969 e...
From here? It got murkier. The American League expanded to 14 teams in 1977, adding the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jayswith seven teams per division. But in order to keep the schedule at 162 and retain a heavier divisional load, the number of games per opponent would not be identical across the divisions. Instead, teams would play each divis...
With the introduction of inter-league play in 1997, balance was abandoned entirely with each team somehow still getting to 162. It remained this way through the 1998 expansion that brought the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to the American League, the Arizona Diamondbacks to the National League and necessitated the move of the Milwaukee Brewersfrom the AL to...
- Phil Watson
The Major League Baseball (MLB) season schedule consists of 162 games for each of the 30 teams in the American League (AL) and National League (NL), played over approximately six months – a total of 2,430 games, plus the postseason. The regular season runs from late March/early April to late September/early October, followed by the postseason ...
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Apr 1, 2021 · Baseball's return to a 162-game schedule starts Thursday. Here's your guide to everything from the ace showdowns to the must-see stars.
