The second half of the Red Sox season begins Friday with a three-game go to to the Chicago Cubs, however for individuals who desire to look even additional down the street, Major League Baseball dropped the 2024 schedule on Thursday.
With assist from Jack and Charlie, brothers and younger Red Sox followers who went viral on social media earlier within the season when the published confirmed Charlie receiving a foul ball and instantly throwing it again onto the sector, making his brother to cry, the Red Sox unveiled subsequent 12 months’s street map.
Brought some buddies again to Fenway for the ‘24 schedule & some redemption. pic.twitter.com/SLE0LIy01h
— Red Sox (@RedSox) July 13, 2023
Special journey
The spring coaching schedule isn’t finalized, however the Red Sox will make a particular preseason journey to the Dominican Republic, the place they’ll play a pair of exhibition video games with the Tampa Bay Rays.
Opening Day 2024
All 30 groups will share the identical Opening Day, Thursday March 28, which joins 2019 because the earliest conventional season openers in Major League historical past. As such, it is sensible that the Red Sox start their marketing campaign with a visit out west, moderately than braving the frigid circumstances at Fenway Park that point of 12 months. Not to fret, it’s greater than possible that temperatures will nonetheless be lower than balmy on the residence opener on Tuesday, April 9.
Like 2019, the Red Sox will open the season in Seattle. After 4 video games towards the Mariners and three in Oakland, they’ll have their first time without work on April 4. The street journey concludes with a three-game collection with the Angels in Anaheim and a time without work on Monday, April 8.
In 2019, the defending champions started the season 3-8 towards Seattle, Oakland, and Arizona earlier than coming residence for his or her ring ceremony.
Notable 2024 MLB dates
In 2024, the Red Sox’s conventional mid-morning Patriots Day/Marathon Monday recreation falls on April 15, MLB’s Jackie Robinson Day. All 30 groups will play within the customary No. 42 in honor of the debut that broke baseball’s shade barrier.
The league will commemorate Lou Gehrig Day on June 2 and Roberto Clemente Day on Sept. 15 with full slates of video games.
Likewise for the Fourth of July; the Red Sox will likely be enjoying a collection finale in Miami.
The All-Star Break will likely be July 15-17, with the All-Star Game set for Tuesday, July 16 at Globe Life Field, the brand new residence of the Texas Rangers. (The Red Sox even have the time without work on July 18.)
Notable 2024 Red Sox dates
The Red Sox will likely be at residence on Mother’s Day (May 12 vs. Nationals) and Father’s Day (June 16 vs. Yankees).
The common season concludes at Fenway on Sept. 29.
Inter-league play
The extra balanced schedule MLB launched this 12 months will proceed in 2024.
Fenway Park will host eight National League groups, a number of of which haven’t performed in Boston in over half a decade.
The Chicago Cubs would be the first to reach, making their first Fenway look since 2017 on April 26-28. After a time without work on Monday, April 29, the San Francisco Giants come to city for 3 video games (April 30-May 2), adopted by the Washington Nationals (May 10-12), Milwaukee Brewers (May 24-26), Atlanta Braves (June 4-5) and Philadelphia Phillies (June 11-13).
Most notably, the San Diego Padres come to city on June 28, 2024, marking the SoCal squad’s first go to since 2013, and Xander Bogaerts’ first time enjoying at Fenway in one other crew’s uniform. Fittingly, 2013 was Bogaerts’ rookie season; he made his main league debut on Aug. 20 of that 12 months, and performed 10 seasons, essentially the most video games at shortstop in franchise historical past, and received two World Series earlier than turning into a free agent final fall and signing an 11-year take care of the Padres.
That collection additionally marks the return of Don Orsillo, the beloved former Red Sox broadcaster who discovered a brand new residence within the Padres sales space. The Massachusetts native has labored the occasional TBS or FOX nationwide broadcast at Fenway because the Red Sox dropped him in 2015, however this will likely be his first time there along with his new membership.
Fenway will solely see one inter-league collection within the second half. Aug. 23-25 would be the Arizona Diamondbacks’ first time in Boston since 2016.
The Red Sox may also go to a number of NL groups, starting with the Pittsburgh Pirates from April 19-21. They’ll journey to Atlanta (May 7-8), St. Louis (May 17-19), Cincinnati (June 21-23), Miami (July 2-4), Los Angeles (July 19-21), Colorado (July 22-24), and New York (September 2-4).
Old buddies
They Red Sox will see Christian Vázquez in Minnesota firstly of May (3-5), however the Twins don’t come to Boston till Sept. 20-22.
After Bogaerts’ go to, the Red Sox will likely be on Mookie Betts’ new residence turf for the primary time since buying and selling him to the Dodgers in February 2020. They start the second half with a visit to Los Angeles (July 19-21) and Colorado (July 22-24).
All conferences with Nathan Eovaldi and the Rangers will occur inside the first two weeks of August, first in Texas (Aug. 2-4), then at Fenway (Aug. 12-14).
Beasts of the East
In order to accommodate the rise in inter-league play, divisional rivalries will proceed to be decreased from the earlier 19-game season collection to 13 video games. The Red Sox will play seven video games (throughout two collection) every at Yankee Stadium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Once once more, the Red Sox and Yankees received’t face off till months into the season. The Yankees first come to Fenway the weekend of June 14-16, and the Red Sox will return the go to July 5-7 and Sept. 12-15. The Yankees received’t be again at Fenway after July 26-28.
Happy anniversary
Speaking of postseasons, 2024 marks 20 years because the historic 2004 Red Sox season and triumphant finish to the Curse of the Bambino. Celebrations and commemorations are certain to function closely all year long.
Notable dates within the curse-busting marketing campaign embody:
June 24: Jason Varitek and Alex Rodriguez’s brawl.
June 31: At the deadline, the Red Sox make a four-team commerce, sending Nomar Garciaparra to the Chicago Cubs in change for Orlando Cabrera (Montreal Expos) and Doug Mientkiewicz (Minnesota Twins), and purchase Dave Roberts from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Oct. 17-20: Games 4-7 of Boston’s historic one-of-a-kind ALCS comeback over the Yankees. No different crew in MLB historical past has come again from a three-game deficit to win a seven-game collection.
Oct. 27: The Red Sox win Game 4 of the World Series, ending their 86-year championship drought.
Source: www.bostonherald.com