A team's road games are usually grouped into a multi-series road trip home series are grouped into homestands.īeginning in 2023, teams play a balanced schedule as follows: they play their 13 games against their four divisional opponents (52 games), six or seven games against the other ten teams in their own league (64 games), four games against one "geographic rival" from the other league and three games against the other 14 teams from the other league for 46 total interleague games. Due to the mid-week all-star break in July, teams are scheduled to play 27 weekend series and 25 mid-week series for 52 total series (16 divisional series, 20 inter-divisional series, 16 inter-league series). Teams start and end their season on a weekend and play for 26½ weeks. Depending on the length of the series, mid-week series games are usually scheduled between Monday and Thursday, while weekend games are scheduled between Thursday and Monday. Teams play one mid-week series and one weekend series per week. Due to travel concerns and the sheer number of games, pairs of teams are never scheduled to play single games against each other (except in the instance 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. The regular season is constructed from series. It is possible for a given team to play a maximum of 22 games in the postseason in a given year, provided the team is a wild card and advances to each of the Division Series, Championship Series, and World Series with each series going the distance (3 games in the Wild Card series, 5 games in the Division Series, 7 games each in the League Championship Series/World Series). One or more International Opener games may be scheduled outside the United States or Canada before the official Opening Day. The season begins with the official Opening Day, and, as of 2018, runs 26½ weeks through the last Sunday of September or first Sunday of October. The regular season runs from late March/early April to late September/early October, followed by the postseason which can run to early November. The Major League Baseball (MLB) season schedule generally 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.
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