Mlb schedule regular season series#

Rainouts and other cancellations are frequently rescheduled at the last minute during the season, occasionally as doubleheaders.

Mlb schedule regular season series#

The road games of a team are normally organized into a multi-series road trip, whereas the home series are organized into homestands. Teams will play a total of 27 weekend series and 25 mid-week series for a total of 52 series due to the mid-week all-star break in July. Mid-week series games are normally planned between Monday and Thursday, whereas weekend series games are usually scheduled between Thursday and Monday, depending on the duration of the series. Each week, teams compete in one midweek series and one weekend series. Three or four-game series are the most common, but two-game series are often arranged. Pairs of teams are seldom scheduled to play single games against each other (except in the case of making up a postponed game or, more rarely, a one-game playoff to determine a postseason berth) instead, they play games on several consecutive days in the same ballpark due to travel concerns and the sheer number of games. The regular season is almost always broken up into multiple series of three or four games against the same opponent. Theoretically, a team could play a maximum of 20 postseason games in one year provided they’re a wild card team and each of their playoff rounds reaches the maximum number of games (five games in the Divisional Round, seven games in the League Championship series, and the World Series).

The season begins on the official Opening Day in late March/early April and ends on the final Sunday in September or the first Sunday in October. The regular season lasts from late March/early April to late September/early October, with the postseason possibly lasting until early November. The Major League Baseball ( MLB) season consists of 162 games played over about six months by each of the 30 teams, for a total of 2,430 games.