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• #MLB SCHEDULE REGULAR SEASON SERIES#

Now, Major League Baseball wants even more teams to make road visits, per this Jayson Stark article in The Athletic from last month:ĥ6 Games in Division - 14 vs. This year’s schedule, and the way MLB has scheduled things since 2013, has 14 teams visiting Wrigley Field: The 10 other NL teams and the White Sox, Rays, Red Sox and Orioles. It happened again in 2019, when a Cubs/Angels game scheduled for April 14 was snowed out, and the Angels had to fly from Seattle to Chicago for the makeup game, then return home to Anaheim the next day. It also happened in 2018, when the Braves and Cubs played a game in perhaps the worst conditions ever at Wrigley - because it was Atlanta’s only visit and the forecast the next day was worse, and the league didn’t want to have to try to make up two postponements. This occasionally results in situations like last week, where the Rays were scheduled to visit Wrigley in April.

#MLB SCHEDULE REGULAR SEASON SERIES#

Some of this is unavoidable because with 15 teams in each league, there has to be at least one interleague series going on at all times. In all, the Cubs’ seven-game homestand had one nice day - Saturday, when temperatures briefly soared above 80 degrees. Then the Cubs played a four-game series against the Pirates where one game was rescheduled due to rain and another delayed nearly an hour by rain. We saw this last week when the Tampa Bay Rays visited Wrigley Field (and also Guaranteed Rate Field on the South Side) for a week, and as I noted in the recap to Wednesday’s soggy, rain-shortened game, weather conditions were awful for all six games the Rays played in Chicago: This results in games being played in less-than-optimal conditions, particularly when the opponent for the Cubs or other northern teams only comes through town once. The baseball season begins and April weather in Chicago and other northern cities turns back to winter.