Major League Baseball has laid out the Mets’ 2027 regular season slate, and it opens with a familiar road test before the team finally settles into Citi Field in April.
The Mets are scheduled to begin the year in Miami against the Marlins on Thursday, March 2, then spend six games away from home before their home opener against the Giants on Friday, April 2. For fans already mapping out trips and series, the calendar offers plenty to circle.
One of the biggest dates on the board comes over Memorial Day weekend, when the Mets host the Yankees. The Subway Series then shifts to the Bronx immediately after the All-Star break.
April closes and May begins with a tough six-game trip through division opponents, as the Mets go on the road to face the Braves and Phillies.
There’s also a notable return on the schedule for Brandon Nimmo, who will come back as a visiting player when the Rangers visit Citi Field on April 23. The Mets are set to play in Texas this season.
The longest road trip of the season stretches 10 games and runs through St. Louis, Arizona and Los Angeles (NL) in late June and early July. That trip ends with a four-game set against the Dodgers around July 4.
At home, the Mets have two nine-game homestands lined up. The first comes in June and includes the Padres, Nationals and Brewers. The second arrives in August and features the Nationals, Braves and Cardinals.
The schedule also includes what should be the Mets’ final visit to Sacramento in April, with the Athletics expected to move into their Las Vegas home in 2028.
In July, the Mets will head to Fenway Park for a three-game series against the Red Sox.
Interleague games at Citi Field will bring in the Angels, Blue Jays, Rays, Yankees, White Sox and Mariners.
The regular season is set to end with a six-game homestand against the Pirates and Cubs, with the final game on September 26.
Of course, the schedule comes with a major caveat: whether baseball will actually be played in March, or at all in 2027. With a labor dispute looming and an owners’ lockout appearing likely, the possibility of lost games is very real. The owners are pushing for a salary cap, which the players are expected to reject, and that could put the league on track for its first non-162-game season since 2020.
The current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires on December 1. The last stoppage, in 2021-2022, lasted 99 days from December 2, 2021 until March 10, 2022, and pushed the season back by a week. Even so, MLB managed to preserve a full 162-game schedule with doubleheaders and a slight extension of the original calendar.
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