The U.S. 7th Fleet Band and U.S. Army Japan Band perform during the
MLB Japan Opening Series 2008 .
Major League Baseball (MLB) has played multiple
regular season games outside of the United States and Canada.
[1] Beginning with the
2023 season , these games are branded as MLB World Tour .
[2]
List of games
Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey
Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú
Locations of Major League Baseball games played outside the United States and Canada
To date, major-league regular-season games have been contested in five countries outside of the United States and Canada: Australia (Sydney), Japan (Tokyo), Mexico (Mexico City and Monterrey), South Korea (Seoul), and the United Kingdom (London).
The first MLB World Tour games (as they are now known) were contested in Mexico in 1996 and 1999. From 2000 through 2012, eight such games were contested, all in Japan. Two games were played in Australia in 2014, followed by three games in Mexico in 2018. The 2019 season saw a total of eight games played in Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Following a three year pause, Mexico and the United Kingdom each hosted a two-game series in 2023. Six games, to be played in three different countries, have been scheduled for 2024.
Exhibition contests, such as preseason games or postseason all-star games, are not included in the list below. Several such contests can be found in the
See also section.
Season
Date
Designated visitor
Score
Designated home team
Attendance
Stadium
City
Country
Ref.
1996
August 16
New York Mets
10–15
San Diego Padres
23,699
Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey
Monterrey
Mexico
[3]
August 17
New York Mets
7–3
San Diego Padres
20,873
[4]
August 18
New York Mets
0–9
San Diego Padres
22,810
[5]
1999
April 4
Colorado Rockies
8–2
San Diego Padres
27,104
[6]
2000
March 29
Chicago Cubs
5–3
New York Mets
55,000
Tokyo Dome
Tokyo
Japan
[7]
March 30
New York Mets
5–1
Chicago Cubs
55,000
[8]
2004
March 30
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
8–3
New York Yankees
55,000
[9]
March 31
New York Yankees
12–1
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
55,000
[10]
2008
March 25
Boston Red Sox
6–5
Oakland Athletics
44,628
[11]
March 26
Boston Red Sox
1–5
Oakland Athletics
44,735
[12]
2012
March 28
Seattle Mariners
3–1
Oakland Athletics
44,227
[13]
March 29
Seattle Mariners
1–4
Oakland Athletics
43,391
[14]
2014
March 22
Los Angeles Dodgers
3–1
Arizona Diamondbacks
38,266
Sydney Cricket Ground
Sydney
Australia
[15]
March 23
Los Angeles Dodgers
7–5
Arizona Diamondbacks
38,079
[16]
2018
May 4
Los Angeles Dodgers
4–0
San Diego Padres
21,536
Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey
Monterrey
Mexico
[17]
May 5
Los Angeles Dodgers
4–7
San Diego Padres
21,791
[18]
May 6
Los Angeles Dodgers
0–3
San Diego Padres
21,789
[19]
2019
March 20
Seattle Mariners
9–7
Oakland Athletics
45,787
Tokyo Dome
Tokyo
Japan
[20]
March 21
Seattle Mariners
5–4 (12)
Oakland Athletics
46,451
[21]
April 13
St. Louis Cardinals
2–5
Cincinnati Reds
16,496
Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey
Monterrey
Mexico
[22]
April 14
St. Louis Cardinals
9–5
Cincinnati Reds
16,793
[23]
May 4
Houston Astros
14–2
Los Angeles Angels
18,177
[24]
May 5
Houston Astros
10–4
Los Angeles Angels
17,614
[25]
June 29
New York Yankees
17–13
Boston Red Sox
59,659
London Stadium
London
United Kingdom
[26]
June 30
New York Yankees
12–8
Boston Red Sox
59,059
[27]
2023
April 29
San Francisco Giants
11–16
San Diego Padres
19,611
Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú
Mexico City
Mexico
[28]
April 30
San Francisco Giants
4–6
San Diego Padres
19,633
[29]
June 24
Chicago Cubs
9–1
St. Louis Cardinals
54,662
London Stadium
London
United Kingdom
[30]
June 25
Chicago Cubs
5–7
St. Louis Cardinals
55,565
[31]
2024
March 20
Los Angeles Dodgers
5–2
San Diego Padres
15,952
Gocheok Sky Dome
Seoul
South Korea
[32]
March 21
San Diego Padres
15–11
Los Angeles Dodgers
15,928
[33]
April 27
Houston Astros
–
Colorado Rockies
Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú
Mexico City
Mexico
April 28
Houston Astros
–
Colorado Rockies
June 8
Philadelphia Phillies
–
New York Mets
London Stadium
London
United Kingdom
June 9
New York Mets
–
Philadelphia Phillies
Notes
Canceled games
In May 2019, MLB announced that the
Chicago Cubs and
St. Louis Cardinals would play a two-game series in London in June 2020, to be known as the
2020 MLB London Series . Additionally, in December 2019, the league announced that the
Arizona Diamondbacks and
San Diego Padres would play a two-game series in Mexico City in April 2020. These would have been the first regular-season MLB games in Mexico City.
[35] Both of these series were cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic .
[36]
[37]
Games played in Puerto Rico
Estadio Hiram Bithorn in
San Juan, Puerto Rico , has hosted 49 MLB games since 2001.
[1] As
Puerto Rico is a United States
commonwealth , these games are not included in the above table.
The
Montreal Expos played 43 "home" games at Estadio Hiram Bithorn during 2003 and 2004.
[38]
Excluding Expos games, below is a list of neutral-site games played in Puerto Rico:
In August 2019, MLB announced a three-game series between the New York Mets and Miami Marlins at Estadio Hiram Bithorn to be played in April 2020.
[45] This series was cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic .
[36]
MLB World Tour
As part of the
collective bargaining agreement to end the
2021–22 Major League Baseball lockout , MLB announced a plan to have additional games played internationally, including regular-season games in
Tokyo ,
Seoul ,
Mexico City ,
London , and
Paris between 2023 and 2026.
[46] Beginning with the
2023 season , games outside the U.S. and Canada are branded as "MLB World Tour".
[2]
The
MLB Mexico City Series was first contested in 2023 at
Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú . The
San Diego Padres won both games against the
San Francisco Giants .
[47]
In 2024, the
Boston Red Sox and the
Tampa Bay Rays played two games during
spring training on March 9–10 at
Estadio Quisqueya in
Santo Domingo ;
[48] the Red Sox won both games.
[49]
[50] The
Los Angeles Dodgers and
San Diego Padres opened the regular season at
Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, with each team winning one game. The
MLB Seoul Series included the first regular season games to be played in Korea.
[51]
[52]
Also during 2024, the
Houston Astros and the
Colorado Rockies will play at
Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú in Mexico City on April 27–28, and the
New York Mets and the
Philadelphia Phillies will play at
London Stadium in London, as part of the
MLB London Series , on June 8–9.
[53]
[54]
On April 3, 2024, the
commissioner of Japanese baseball ,
Sadayuki Sakakibara , told reporters that the 2025 MLB season would open in Japan on March 19–20, which would be the first MLB games played in the country since 2019 (and the first played under World Tour branding); teams and location have yet to be confirmed,
[55] and MLB has yet to confirm Sakakibara's statement.
MLB plans to host games at the
Stade de France , just outside Paris, starting in 2025. The games will be the first MLB regular-season games to be contested in
mainland Europe . The new Stade de France series is intended to alternate with the London series, which began in 2019 and resumed in 2023 following a three-season pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. MLB plans to hold games in London in 2024, followed by Paris in 2025, and then in London again in 2026.
[56] The Los Angeles Dodgers and the
New York Yankees have informed MLB that they would like to participate in the 2025 Paris series.
[57]
[58]
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