What is and what should you know about Opening Day?
This Thursday, March 27 will officially start the 2025 MLB season with the traditional Opening Day, this is what you should know.
The 2025 season of MLB will start this Thursday, March 27 with the Opening Day with activity of 28 of the 30 major leagues.
What is Opening Day?
It is the date aimed at starting with the regular baseball season in MLB And that is where the illusion of all fans is renewed to see their team at the start of a new year with the possibility of dreaming of the title of World Series.
For more than a century, the Opening Day It was established to give the initial flag to the major league season. The organization that began with the tradition of being the first team to play were Cincinnati Reds In 1869 when the franchise was known as Cincinnati Red Stockings And they beat 45-9 to Great Westerns of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati a 100 -year run culminated being the first team that played the match of Opening Day In 1966. The rain appeared in the Crosley Field which forced the inaugural game of the Reds not to take place and occur in another enclosure. Historically, Ohio’s team plays most cases at home on the day the season starts. And the Chicago Cubsit is the team against which they have faced the most in the inaugural duel.
From the 90’s, the games have taken great relevance for teams, players, coaching staff and fans. This has given an additional value to the opening launchers who are scheduled to play that day and takes as a prestigious statistic. In addition to being a meeting that takes additional value if you win to have a winning season.
Since the beginning of the century, there have been international series that are carried out in different important cities in the world such as: Monterrey, Seoul, Sydney, etc. In addition to establishing for some years, as of 1994, having a game the previous night to give a special emphasis to two particular teams. This initiative was ruled out to play all organizations in the same day.
What should you know about Opening Day 2025?
For this beginning of the 2025 season, the activity began with two teams that entered an international series parked. The champions Los Angeles Dodgers They faced Chicago Cubs In the Tokyo Series. Dodgers won both meetings, starting with the right foot the defense of his title of World Series.
This Thursday, March 27, the 15 maximum games that can be played in a full day of MLB. The duel between Colorado Rockies and Tampa Bay Rays One day was toured (it will be played on Friday 28), due to the change of headquarters that the organization of Tampa Bay had and tuning its alternative stage. The Rays will play this year as premises at the George M. Steinbrenner Field, House of the Yankees in Spring Training due to the effects that Tropicana Field had last year by Hurricane Milton.
One of the gusts that could be broken for this Opening Day It is with the franchise of the Baltimore Orioles and the gardener Tyler O’Neillwho arrives with a run of five consecutive years hitting Home Run in an inaugural match and this 2025 will seek to reach six years in a row to continue with the brand alone. However, the outfielder also maintains an active streak of four defeats in a row in Opening Dayaccumulating with the Boston franchise, St. Louis and could now fall with Baltimore.
Among the duels that most attract attention for the 2025 edition of Opening Day It is the first game, where Yankees will receive a Breweers In Yankee Stadium. Being the reunion of the closer Devin Williams with Milwaukee and NÉSTOR CORTES JR With New York. The champions Dodgers They will receive at home Detroit Tigers In a monicular duel between winning pitchers Cy Young: Tarik Skubal vs Blake Snell. Finally, Juan Soto who signed the best contract in the story of MLB will be debuting with the New York Mets Playing on the road to Houston Astros.
