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2025 Major League Baseball Season
The 2025 Major League Baseball season began on March 18–19 with a two-game series between the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs held in Tokyo, Japan. The rest of the regular season runs from March 27 to September 28. The 95th All-Star Game is planned for July 15 at Truist Park in Cumberland, Georgia, the home of the Atlanta Braves. The Athletics relocated from Oakland to West Sacramento, California, for at least three seasons before their planned relocation to the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The team is branded as the Athletics, with no city name attached. Schedule Major League Baseball released its 2025 schedule on July 18, 2024. There are 162 games scheduled for all teams. The scheduling formula was modified this season to increase the number of games between "prime" Interleague rivals from four to six, playing two three-game series instead of two two-game series. May 16–18 has also been designated as "Rivalry Weekend", featuri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional baseball league in the world. Each team plays 162 games per season, with Opening Day traditionally held during the first week of April. Six teams in each league then advance to a four-round Major League Baseball postseason, postseason tournament in October, culminating in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the two league champions first played in 1903. MLB is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. Formed in 1876 and 1901, respectively, the NL and AL cemented their cooperation with the National Agreement in 1903, making MLB the oldest major professional sports league in the world. They remained le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The 2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be the 95th Major League Baseball All-Star Game, presented by MasterCard, will be played between the American League (AL) and the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball. The game is scheduled to be played on July 15, 2025. The game will be televised nationally by Fox. The game will be hosted by the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park in Cumberland, Georgia. Background Host selection The Atlanta Braves were awarded the game on November 16, 2023, by Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. This will be the third time that the Braves host the MLB All-Star Game. The previous games were the 1972 at Atlanta Stadium, which was renamed to Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in 1975 and 2000 at Turner Field. Truist Park was originally scheduled to host the 2021 game before it was moved to Denver amid protests against the Election Integrity Act of 2021. (Which at the time of Atlanta's selection as hosts in November 2023, and as of Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Steinbrenner Field
George M. Steinbrenner Field, formerly known as Legends Field, is a baseball stadium located in Tampa, Florida, United States, across the Dale Mabry Highway from Raymond James Stadium. The ballpark was built in 1996 and seats 11,026 people, with an addition in right field built in 2007. It is the largest spring training ballpark in Florida. George M. Steinbrenner Field serves as the spring training home of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB) and is the home of the Tampa Tarpons, the Yankees' affiliate in the Florida State League. After extensive damage to Tropicana Field by Hurricane Milton, Steinbrenner Field serves as the temporary home field for MLB's Tampa Bay Rays during their 2025 season. Background and stadium history Tampa was the first spring training site in Florida, beginning in 1913 with the Chicago Cubs. In the ensuing decades, the city hosted several different Major League Baseball (MLB) teams for spring training and was home to several different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2025 Tampa Bay Rays Season
The 2025 Tampa Bay Rays season is the 28th season of the Tampa Bay Rays franchise, as members of Major League Baseball's American League American League East, East Division. The 2025 season was slated to be the Rays’ 28th season playing at Tropicana Field; however, the stadium was heavily damaged during the passage of Hurricane Milton, rendering it unusable for the entirety of the season. On November 14, 2024, the Rays announced that they will play their 2025 home games at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, the spring training home of the New York Yankees. It is the first time an MLB team has been temporarily displaced from their home stadium since 2021 MLB season, 2021 when the Toronto Blue Jays had to play in stadiums in Buffalo, New York and Dunedin, Florida because of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions from Canada. Season standings American League East American League Wild Card Record vs. opponents Record vs. American League Record vs. National League Game l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2025 Colorado Rockies Season
The 2025 Colorado Rockies season is their 33rd in Major League Baseball, their 31st season at Coors Field and their ninth and final under manager Bud Black, who was fired on May 11, after a start to the season. The Rockies opened to an record through their first 50 games, marking the worst 50-game start in MLB's modern era (since 1901). On May 31, following a defeat to the New York Mets, the Rockies established a new MLB record for the lowest number of wins at the end of May, totaling 9, and are the first team in history to open a season with 19 straight series losses. The Rockies lost a Major League-record 22 straight series dating back to last September. They won their first series on June 3 by sweeping the Miami Marlins. This is their first season without outfielder Charlie Blackmon since 2010, as he retired at the end of the 2024 season. Offseason The Rockies finished the 2024 season 61–101, their second consecutive 100-loss season. This was the second worst record in te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Opening Day
Opening Day is the day on which professional baseball leagues begin their regular season. For Major League Baseball (MLB) and most of the American minor leagues, this day typically falls during the first week of April, although in recent years it has occasionally fallen in the last week of March. Since 2023, Opening Day falls on the last Thursday of March. In Nippon Professional Baseball, this day typically falls during the last week of March. For baseball fans, Opening Day serves as a symbol of rebirth; writer Thomas Boswell once penned a book titled, ''Why Time Begins on Opening Day''. Pre-season exhibition games are usually played in the month before Opening Day, during spring training. A home opener is a team's first game of the season on their home field. Equivalents to Opening Day occur throughout the sport, including minor leagues, college baseball, high school, and youth leagues. Because MLB generally begins its season earlier than the other professional baseball l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tokyo Dome
is an indoor stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It was designed as a baseball stadium following its predecessor, Korakuen Stadium (whose former site is now occupied by the Tokyo Dome Hotel and a plaza for this stadium). In Japan, it is often used as a unit of size; for example, "the new construction is five times the size of Tokyo Dome." Construction Construction on the stadium began on May 16, 1985, and it opened on March 17, 1988. It was built on the site of the Velodrome, adjacent to Korakuen Stadium and the Koishikawa-Kōrakuen garden. It has a maximum total capacity of 57,000 depending on configuration, with an all-seating configuration of 42,000. Tokyo Dome's original nickname was "The Big Egg", with some calling it the "Tokyo Big Egg".Haberman, Clyde Amid Some Doubts, a Tokyo Dome New York Times, March 23, 1988 Its dome-shaped roof is an air-supported structure, a cable-reinforced 0.8 mm flexible fiberglass membrane supported by slightly pressurizing the inside of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Las Vegas Valley
The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the Southern Nevada, southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Statistical Area is coextensive since 2003 with Clark County, Nevada. The Valley is largely defined by the Las Vegas Valley land formation, a Depression (geology), basin area surrounded by mountains to the north, south, east and west of the metropolitan area. The Valley is home to the three largest incorporated cities in Nevada: Las Vegas, Henderson, Nevada, Henderson and North Las Vegas, Nevada, North Las Vegas. Eleven unincorporated towns governed by the Clark County government are part of the Las Vegas Township and constitute the largest community in the state of Nevada. The names Las Vegas and Vegas are interchangeably used to indicate the Valley, Las Vegas Strip, the Strip, and the city, and as a brand by the Las Vegas Convention and V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Oakland Athletics Relocation To Las Vegas
The Oakland Athletics relocation to Las Vegas is an ongoing effort by the ownership of the Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) to relocate the franchise from Oakland, California, to the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The team was based in Oakland from 1968 through 2024, during which it won four World Series titles. Their relocation would make them the second major sports franchise to move from Oakland to Las Vegas, following the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) making the same move in 2020. With four locations, the A's have had the most homes of any MLB team. The relocation has been highly controversial and has been met with significant community pushback against Athletics owner John Fisher. The relocation effort follows years of numerous failed attempts to replace the Oakland Coliseum with a more modern stadium in the Bay Area. In 2023, the team announced it was planning to build a new ballpark in the Las Vegas Valley, causing negotiations over the prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
West Sacramento, California
West Sacramento (also known as West Sac) is a city in Yolo County, California, United States. The city is separated from Sacramento, California, Sacramento by the Sacramento River, which also separates Sacramento County, California, Sacramento and Yolo counties. The population was 53,915 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, up from 48,744 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. The traditional industrial center of the region since the California gold rush era, West Sacramento is home to a diverse economy and is one of the area's top four employment centers. The United States Conference of Mayors named West Sacramento as the Most Livable City in America in 2014 in the category of cities with fewer than 100,000 residents. West Sacramento is part of the Sacramento metropolitan area, Sacramento–Arden Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area which has a population (2000) of approximately 1,796,857 (July 1, 2016, estimate placed the population at 2,296,418). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the most populous city in the East Bay, the third most populous city in the Bay Area, and the eighth most populous city in California. It serves as the Bay Area's trade center: the Port of Oakland is the busiest port in Northern California, and the fifth- or sixth-busiest in the United States. A charter city, Oakland was municipal corporation, incorporated on May 4, 1852, in the wake of the state's increasing population due to the California gold rush. Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal prairie, California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. In the late 18th century, it became part of a large ''rancho'' grant in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Athletics (baseball)
The Athletics (often referred to as the A's) are an American professional baseball team based in West Sacramento, California. The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League West, West Division. The team plans to play its home games at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento for the 2025–2027 seasons before its Oakland Athletics relocation to Las Vegas, planned relocation to the Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas metropolitan area. While in West Sacramento, the team is being referred to as simply the "Athletics" and "A's", with no city name attached. The franchise's nine World Series championships (tied with the Boston Red Sox), fifteen Pennants (baseball), pennants, and seventeen division titles are the second most in the AL after the New York Yankees. One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the team was founded in Philadelphia in 1901 as the Philadelphia Athletics. They won three World Series championships in , , an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
