Main League Baseball on Wednesday introduced begin instances for its whole 2026 calendar of video games, together with the common season, Spring Coaching and the third annual Spring Breakout.
The 2026 Spring Coaching slate will formally start on Friday, February twentieth in Arizona and Florida earlier than a full schedule of Cactus and Grapefruit League video games are performed on Saturday, February 21. Friday’s slate options 4 Cactus League contests (AZ @ COL; SD @ SEA; KC @ TEX; CWS @ CHC), one Grapefruit League recreation (NYY @ BAL), and two exhibition matchups (Northeastern Univ. @ BOS; Univ. of Minnesota @ MIN).
The third annual Spring Breakout might be performed from Thursday, March nineteenth by way of Sunday, March 22, showcasing baseball’s future stars as Golf equipment assemble their high prospects to play in exhibition video games in opposition to each other. Spring Breakout will start with six contests on March 19, headlined by a matchup of top-10 farm programs in line with MLB Pipeline because the seventh-ranked Mets prospects host the Tenth-ranked Rays prospects in Port St. Lucie, Florida at 7:10 p.m. (ET).
The Spring Coaching schedule additionally features a complete of 30 exhibition video games on Tuesday, March 3, and Wednesday, March 4, that includes Main League Golf equipment competing in opposition to World Baseball Basic Nationwide Groups previous to the scheduled North American begin to the 2026 World Baseball Basic on Friday, March sixth in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Houston, Texas; and Miami, Florida. Among the many exhibition video games are a pair of contests between the Detroit Tigers and the Dominican Republic Nationwide Group at Santo Domingo’s Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal at 6:05 p.m. (ET)/7:05 p.m. (AST) on Tuesday and a couple of:05 p.m. (ET)/3:05 p.m. (AST) on Wednesday. The occasion will mark the primary time ever that the DR Nationwide Group will host a Main League Membership for exhibition video games within the nation. Moreover, the video games might be performed in reminiscence of the victims of the April 8, 2025 tragedy on the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo with MLB and UEPA donating to Cruz Roja Dominicana (i.e., the Dominican Crimson Cross) as a part of the occasion.
The San Francisco Giants will host the New York Yankees on Opening Evening on Wednesday, March 25, at 8:05 p.m. (ET)/5:05 p.m. (PT), completely on Netflix. Conventional Opening Day on Thursday, March 26 will characteristic 11 contests, highlighted by a pair of video games on NBC and Peacock because the Pittsburgh Pirates go to the New York Mets at 1:15 p.m. (ET), and the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers host the Arizona Diamondbacks at 8:30 p.m. (ET)/5:30 p.m. (PT). MLB Community can have intensive protection of Opening Day on Thursday, March 26, together with the returns of MLB Central and the Emmy Award-winning MLB Tonight, that includes reside look-ins at video games in progress, highlights and evaluation.
MLB’s Mexico Metropolis Sequence will return in 2026, that includes two video games between the D-backs and San Diego Padres on Saturday, April twenty fifth at 4:05 p.m. (MT)/3:05 p.m. (PT) and Sunday, April 26, at 2:05 p.m. (MT)/1:05 p.m. (PT). The contests at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú Béisbol, which would be the newest installment of MLB’s WORLD TOUR, will mark the third common season go to by MLB to Mexico Metropolis’s capital (additionally 2023 and 2024).
“Rivalry Weekend” offered by Reserving.com throughout the Majors will return through the weekend of Might 15-17, that includes 11 sequence between prime Interleague rivals and 4 different regional matchups. In 2026, every of the 30 Golf equipment will host the identical Interleague opponents as they hosted in 2024. “Rivalry Weekend” video games will begin with matchups between the Keystone State’s Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies in Pittsburgh, and the American League Champion Toronto Blue Jays visiting the Tigers, with each contests starting at 6:40 p.m. (ET).
The 96th All-Star Sport offered by Mastercard will happen on Tuesday, July 14, at Residents Financial institution Park in Philadelphia on FOX for the celebration of the semiquincentennial of American independence. The Midsummer Basic in Philadelphia follows swimsuit from 1976, when Veterans Stadium hosted the All-Star Sport within the 12 months of the nation’s bicentennial. The 2026 All-Star Sport will mark the primary at Residents Financial institution Park, the fifth total to be hosted by the Metropolis of Philadelphia, and the fourth to be hosted by the Phillies. All-Star Week can even embody protection of the MLB Draft on NBC, Peacock and MLB Community on Saturday, July 11; the All-Star Futures Sport on NBC and Peacock at midday (ET) on Sunday, July 12; and the T-Cellular Dwelling Run Derby on Netflix on Monday, July 13.
In August, MLB will stage two of its signature video games of the 2026 common season, that includes a return to Dyersville, Iowa for the third version of “MLB at Area of Goals,” and the continuation of an annual custom in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for the “MLB Little League Basic offered by New York Life.” The Area of Goals contest, which follows the 2021 and 2022 renditions of the occasion, will characteristic the Minnesota Twins and the Phillies on Thursday, August 13, at 7:30 p.m. (ET)/6:30 p.m. (CT) on Netflix. The Milwaukee Brewers and the Atlanta Braves will take part within the Little League Basic on Sunday, August twenty third at 7:10 p.m. (ET)/6:10 p.m. (CT) on ESPN.
The ultimate day of the 2026 common season might be Sunday, September 27, that includes 9 divisional matchups, and with all 15 contests beginning between 3:00-3:20 p.m. (ET).
Different highlights of the 2026 calendar embody:
