Main League Baseball introduced Thursday that it’ll start the 2025 season in Japan for the primary time since 2019 and sixth time in league historical past. That opening matchup will function 4 of the nation’s largest baseball stars in Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shōta Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki, because the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs will play on the Tokyo Dome on March 18 and 19, 2025.
The Cubs’ journey again to Japan to open a season will fall on the twenty fifth anniversary of MLB’s first go to there, when Chicago took on the New York Mets in 2000. The league went again in 2004 (New York Yankees vs. Tampa Bay Rays), 2008 (Boston Pink Sox vs. Oakland A‘s), 2012 (Seattle Mariners vs. A’s) and 2019 for a Mariners-A’s rematch that featured the ultimate two video games of Ichiro Suzuki‘s MLB profession.
This would be the Cubs’ third time enjoying abroad, following the 2000 Tokyo collection and their 2023 journey to London, England. The Dodgers will journey to Japan for the primary time, however will probably be their fourth time being featured internationally after they went to Sydney, Australia, in 2014, Monterrey, Mexico, in 2018, and Seoul, South Korea, to start the 2024 MLB season.
Different 2025 MLB schedule highlights
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March 31: A’s dwelling opener in opposition to the Cubs at Sutter Well being Park in Sacramento, California, after the A’s start the season with 4 video games on the street in Seattle.
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Might 16-18: Important interleague rivals will play one another six instances in 2025, with one in all their two collection falling on “Rivalry Weekend” in mid-Might.
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July 15: ninety fifth MLB All-Star Sport at Truist Park in Atlanta
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Sept. 28: Last day of the 2025 common season. Most of the matchups that day will function divisional foes, together with Orioles vs. Yankees and Cardinals vs. Cubs.
