Though the 2025 MLB season officially began in Japan last week, Opening Day has officially arrived stateside with 28 of the 30 teams in action on Thursday.
Everyone will be chasing the Dodgers, in multiple ways, after they won last year’s World Series and began defense of their title with a two-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo.
With a few exceptions for injuries and other mitigating factors, each club will have its ace on the mound as they kick off their regular season schedules. Most teams will take the field in the sunshine, with only two of Thursday’s openers being night games.
MLB opening day schedule
All times Eastern, starting pitchers in parentheses
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- Milwaukee Brewers (Freddy Peralta) at New York Yankees (Carlos Rodon), 3:05 p.m. | ESPN
- Baltimore Orioles (Zach Eflin) at Toronto Blue Jays (Jose Berrios), 3:05 p.m.
- Boston Red Sox (Garrett Crochet) at Texas Rangers (Nathan Eovaldi), 4:05 p.m.
- Philadelphia Phillies (Zack Wheeler) at Washington Nationals (MacKenzie Gore), 4:05 p.m.
- Cleveland Guardians (Tanner Bibee) at Kansas City Royals (Cole Ragans), 4:10 p.m.
- New York Mets (Clay Holmes) at Houston Astros (Framber Valdez), 4:10 p.m.
- San Francisco Giants (Logan Webb) at Cincinnati Reds (Hunter Greene), 4:10 p.m.
- Atlanta Braves (Chris Sale) at San Diego Padres (Michael King), 4:10 p.m.
- Los Angeles Angels (Yusei Kikuchi) at Chicago White Sox (Sean Burke), 4:10 p.m.
- Pittsburgh Pirates (Paul Skenes) at Miami Marlins (Sandy Alcantara), 4:10 p.m.
- Minnesota Twins (Pablo Lopez) at St. Louis Cardinals (Sonny Gray), 4:15 p.m.
- Detroit Tigers (Tarik Skubal) at Los Angeles Dodgers (Blake Snell), 7:10 p.m. | ESPN
- Chicago Cubs (Justin Steele) at Arizona Diamondbacks (Zac Gallen), 10:10 p.m. | MLB Network
- (Sacramento) Athletics (Luis Severino) at Seattle Mariners (Logan Gilbert), 10:10 p.m. | MLB Network
The Colorado Rockies and Tampa Bay Rays will have their season opener on Friday at George Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. It will mark the first home game for the Rays since their home park, Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, was destroyed by Hurricane Milton last October.
How to watch Thursday’s MLB action
ESPN will broadcast two nationally televised MLB games on Thursday — the Brewers visiting the Yankees at 3:05 p.m. ET and the defending champion Dodgers hosting the Tigers at 7:10 p.m. ET.
In addition, MLB Network will debut its two-hour “National Pregame Show” at 2 p.m. ET and will have live look-ins througout the day. MLB Network will also simulcast the local broadcasts of Cubs-Diamondbacks and Athletics-Mariners to regional audiences at 10:10 p.m. ET.
Online streaming of the games on ESPN and MLB Network are available through MLB.tv or FuboTV, which offers a free trial subscription for new users.
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