Red Sox 2024 Schedule

[RedOctober3829]

Sox open up next season with a 10-game West Coast road trip in Seattle. 4 games in Seattle, 3 in Oakland, and 3 at the Angels. Home opener is April 9th against Baltimore. Xander returns at the end of June with the Padres.
March
28-31 at Seattle

April
1-3 at Oakland
5-7 at LAA
9-11 vs. Baltimore
12-14 vs. LAA
15-18 vs. Cleveland
19-21 at Pittsburgh
23-25 at Cleveland
26-28 vs. Cubs

May
April 30-2 vs. SF
3-5 at Minnesota
7-8 at Atlanta
10-12 vs. Washington
13-16 vs. TB
17-19 at STL
20-22 at Tampa
24-26 vs. Milwaukee
27-29 at Baltimore
30-June 2 vs. Detroit

June
4-5 vs. Atlanta
6-9 at White Sox
11-13 vs. Philly
14-16 vs. NYY
17-19 at Toronto
21-23 at Cincinnati
24-26 vs. Toronto
28-30 vs. SD

July
2-4 at Miami
5-7 at Yankees
9-11 vs. Oakland
12-14 vs. KC
15-18 All Star Break
19-21 at LA Dodgers
22-24 at Colorado
26-28 vs. NYY
29-31 vs. Seattle

August
2-4 at Texas
6-7 at KC
9-11 vs. Houston
12-14 vs. Texas
15-18 at Baltimore
19-21 at Houston
23-25 vs. Arizona
26-29 vs. Toronto
30-Sept 1 at Detroit

September
2-4 at NY Mets
6-8 vs. CWS
9-11 vs. Baltomore
12-15 at NYY
17-19 at Tampa
20-22 vs Minnesota
23-25 at Toronto
27-29 vs. Tampa

 

[RG33]

That’s kind of a bummer, I was hoping they would open at home and raise the banner right out of the gate.

 

[LogansDad]

Getting one of the West Coast trips out of the way the first week of the season is nice.

Mariners are my "2nd team", so Opening Day should be fun!

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Getting one of the West Coast trips out of the way the first week of the season is nice.

That was my first thought as well.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Is there a published full schedule?

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Bogaerts returns June 28-30

View: https://twitter.com/PeteAbe/status/1679539529416335378

 

[YTF]

Holy shit, they open with a 10 game west coast trip and the home opener is April 9th? Doesn't seem that long ago that opening day was around April 4th or 5th.

 

[TheYellowDart5]

Holy shit, they open with a 10 game west coast trip and the home opener is April 9th? Doesn't seem that long ago that opening day was around April 4th or 5th.

Honestly more Northeast and Midwest teams should push their home openers as late into the start of the season as they can to duck the perpetual bad weather of late March and early April. The Red Sox starting a season at home is begging for early rainouts and 40-degree games; might as well reduce those odds.

 

[mauidano]

Honestly more Northeast and Midwest teams should push their home openers as late into the start of the season as they can to duck the perpetual bad weather of late March and early April. The Red Sox starting a season at home is begging for early rainouts and 40-degree games; might as well reduce those odds.

100 percent this.

 

[BaseballJones]

100 percent this.

I actually don’t even know why this isn’t standard practice for MLB. It ought to be.

 

[tims4wins]

Why is MLB the only league that announces next season’s schedule at the halfway point of the current schedule?

 

[Tony Pena's Gas Cloud]

Honestly more Northeast and Midwest teams should push their home openers as late into the start of the season as they can to duck the perpetual bad weather of late March and early April. The Red Sox starting a season at home is begging for early rainouts and 40-degree games; might as well reduce those odds.

I'm not sure that would go over swimmingly with teams like Miami, Tampa, Houston, San Diego, etc. when they automatically have more road games later in the season.

 

[koufax32]

Teams that should push home openers as far back as possible:
BOS
MFY
NYM
PIT
CLE
DET
CHC
CHW
MIN
COL

That leaves 20 teams to host as many games as they can in March/April. Like someone said above, I have no idea why this isn’t standard practice. Maybe MLB thinks it’s an unfair late season advantage to start so road heavy?

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

I'm not sure that would go over swimmingly with teams like Miami, Tampa, Houston, San Diego, etc. when they automatically have more road games later in the season.

Bingo. All teams want as many home games as they can get from late May through August when schools is out and the weather is generally nice. No one wants more home games in April when families can't get to games, especially weekday evenings.

So they all get their fair share of early season road games and mid-season home games. Maybe not every year but balanced out every two or three years.

 

[LogansDad]

Full schedule:

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Interesting that Patriots Day won't be the conclusion of a weekend wrap-around series but the first game of weekday series instead.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Early June weekend series in Chicago. Awesome.

 

[Max Power]

Holy shit, they open with a 10 game west coast trip and the home opener is April 9th? Doesn't seem that long ago that opening day was around April 4th or 5th.

Opening Day at Fenway this year was in March. It sucked. In 1973 they played a full 162 game schedule with most teams starting on April 6 and ending on September 30. They need to start doing that again. Opening in March and ending in October is ridiculous with 2 extra rounds of playoffs.

 

[IpswichSox]

Aside from the opening West Coast trip, there doesn't appear to be any real brutal travel or long stretches away. I hope, unlike I think it was 2019, they don't build out additional spring training games in Arizona before going to Seattle next year. There was a lot of grumbling from players that it was like effectively two weeks straight on the road -- and that year didn't get off to a good start.

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Opening Day at Fenway this year was in March. It sucked. In 1973 they played a full 162 game schedule with most teams starting on April 6 and ending on September 30. They need to start doing that again. Opening in March and ending in October is ridiculous with 2 extra rounds of playoffs.

In 1973, they had scheduled double-headers (Sox had four) and only 11 teams to travel to.

In 2024, there are no scheduled double headers and twice as many teams to travel to (22).

Having 33% more teams in each league and interleague play makes it a lot harder to pull off the 162 game schedule in the same time frame. Add in the CBA requiring more scheduled off-days (demanded by the players) and we're never going to see as compact a schedule again without reducing the number of games that comprise a full season.

 

[Max Power]

In 1973, they had scheduled double-headers (Sox had four) and only 11 teams to travel to.

In 2024, there are no scheduled double headers and twice as many teams to travel to (22).

Having 33% more teams in each league and interleague play makes it a lot harder to pull off the 162 game schedule in the same time frame. Add in the CBA requiring more scheduled off-days (demanded by the players) and we're never going to see as compact a schedule again without reducing the number of games that comprise a full season.

That's true, which is why the expanded playoffs should have been accompanied by a return to the 154 game schedule. But teams would never give up those games, so we have the World Series scheduled to go into November every year.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

Sunday, September 15. Red Sox/Yankees, Patriots game.

 

[AB in DC]

Again, no Yankee games until mid-June.

(edit: Or Toronto)

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Sunday, September 15. Red Sox/Yankees, Patriots game.

Damn, and I think I have a date.

 

[jayhoz]

Not the regular season, but thought this sounded like fun.

The Red Sox are heading to the Dominican Republic for a pair of spring tune-ups in 2024.

Major League Baseball announced on Wednesday that the Red Sox will play the Tampa Bay Rays on March 9 and 10 at Estadio Quisqueya in Santo Domingo.

 

[pedro1918]

Interesting that Patriots Day won't be the conclusion of a weekend wrap-around series but the first game of weekday series instead.

The Guardians play at home the day before. They must be thrilled with the 11 am start. Let’s hope they win in 15 innings (the play NYY) with a long rain delay.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

I don't understand why they can't change certain things like always facing Cleveland early, always facing Houston late from season to season

EDIT: And Angels coming into Fenway the exact same weekend as this year, albeit with a very unusual curveball of the 11am game starting a series instead.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Why is MLB the only league that announces next season’s schedule at the halfway point of the current schedule?

Usually it's come out in September, this is a complete curveball releasing it today.

 

[canderson]

The 2nd west coast trip is coming out of the all star break to, so no west coast trips mid-week trips after a series.

 

[grimshaw]

Done with the Angels by April 12th. That's gotta be a record.

 

[RedOctober3829]

That Dodgers-Rockies would be a pretty sweet trip. Go out to LA, see 2 games there, fly to Denver and see 1-2 games and go home.

Another cool trip for me would be going down to Miami for a couple days around July 4th then fly back home to NY for the Yankees series.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

Seems like the best possible west coast schedule. I don't ever remember anything as favorable as this before.

 

[nattysez]

All references to Oakland should probably read "Oakland." I think it's very unlikely the A's play in Oakland next season. The last report I saw suggested that they'll play, appropriately enough, in the AAA stadium in Vegas.

 

[LogansDad]

Seems like the best possible west coast schedule. I don't ever remember anything as favorable as this before.

As long as the first one isn't 2019 redux, I agree.

 

[YTF]

I'm not sure that would go over swimmingly with teams like Miami, Tampa, Houston, San Diego, etc. when they automatically have more road games later in the season.

Later in the season doesn't have to be late in the season. Much of that can be balanced out in the first 6 weeks of a 27 week schedule.

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

Angels out here are during Passover, of course.

 

[NoXInNixon]

Why is MLB the only league that announces next season’s schedule at the halfway point of the current schedule?

The NFL can't because opponents for next year depend on the current year's final standings. Also, teams like the Red Sox that also schedule concerts during the summer probably need to start booking for next year now, so since the schedule is finalized, why not publish it?

 

[Red(s)HawksFan]

The NFL can't because opponents for next year depend on the current year's final standings. Also, teams like the Red Sox that also schedule concerts during the summer probably need to start booking for next year now, so since the schedule is finalized, why not publish it?

As has been posted, they usually announce the schedule in September. I suspect that getting it out earlier is a conscious effort to have something newsworthy on the last day of the All Star break so media and fans like us have something to talk about today.

 

[JM3]

Later in the season doesn't have to be late in the season. Much of that can be balanced out in the first 6 weeks of a 27 week schedule.

Yeah, could literally have half the league that hosts games in the 1st 2 weeks of the season & the other half host games the 1st 2 weeks after the All-Star break & keep everything else the same.

 

[patinorange]

That Dodgers-Rockies would be a pretty sweet trip. Go out to LA, see 2 games there, fly to Denver and see 1-2 games and go home.

Another cool trip for me would be going down to Miami for a couple days around July 4th then fly back home to NY for the Yankees series.

Sox at Dodger Stadium. I'm in.

 

[Bob Montgomerys Helmet Hat]

That Dodgers-Rockies would be a pretty sweet trip. Go out to LA, see 2 games there, fly to Denver and see 1-2 games and go home.

Another cool trip for me would be going down to Miami for a couple days around July 4th then fly back home to NY for the Yankees series.

Ah, Miami in July.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

I hope they do a 20th anniversary thing for the ‘04 team during one of the Yankees weekend series. Make them watch.

 

[RedOctober3829]

Ah, Miami in July.

A little time at a poolside bar during the day then indoors for the games.

 

[Tony Pena's Gas Cloud]

Yeah, could literally have half the league that hosts games in the 1st 2 weeks of the season & the other half host games the 1st 2 weeks after the All-Star break & keep everything else the same.

Um, no. The revenue from games in July is FAR different from games in April. The worst attended games of the year are ALWAYS at the beginning of the year, especially on weeknights. So the Marlins, Padres, and other warm weather teams will sell fewer tickets and have less revenue than the cold weather teams raking in the profits in July.
NO ONE wants home games in April. MLB has to take into account the interests of all 30 teams. It does this by distributing the "suck games" equally.

 

[Tony Pena's Gas Cloud]

Later in the season doesn't have to be late in the season. Much of that can be balanced out in the first 6 weeks of a 27 week schedule.

Read the above post

 

[YTF]

Read the above post

No one's suggesting that any team plays all of their home or road games in April. This can be done in an equitable manner while making an effort to avoid some of these early season, bad weather games.

 

[biollante]

Getting a West Coast trip out of the way early on seems good to me.

 

[Tony Pena's Gas Cloud]

No one's suggesting that any team plays all of their home or road games in April. This can be done in an equitable manner while making an effort to avoid some of these early season, bad weather games.

You're aware that in places like Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Minneapolis that it can snow all the way into May, yes? So how do you suggest working around that? Especially keeping in mind that every home game played in April rather than July or August is likely a loss of potential revenue?

 

[YTF]

You're aware that in places like Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Minneapolis that it can snow all the way into May, yes? So how do you suggest working around that? Especially keeping in mind that every home game played in April rather than July or August is likely a loss of potential revenue?

Be serious. You're not going to completely eliminate the threat, but you can lessen it. As for the potential lost revenue we already discussed that.

 

[Max Power]

You're aware that in places like Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Minneapolis that it can snow all the way into May, yes? So how do you suggest working around that? Especially keeping in mind that every home game played in April rather than July or August is likely a loss of potential revenue?

It can also get up into the 60s in January in Boston. Might as well start the season on MLK Day.