Yankees release 2026 regular season schedule

We might be in the home stretch of the 2025 campaign, but in conjunction with the other 29 Major League Baseball teams, the Yankees have announced their schedule for the 2026 regular season.

Opening Day arrives a little earlier than usual, the Yankees kicking off their season on March 25th at San Francisco’s Oracle Park in a matchup reminiscent of the series that opened the 2023 season, when New York took two out of three from the Giants in the Bronx. The Yankees have gotten fans excited early the last few years, winning the Opening Day series each of the last four seasons including a four-game sweep of the Astros in 2024 and memorably scoring 20 runs—including three home runs on three pitches off old friend Nestor Cortes—in the middle of their three-game sweep of the Brewers to begin this year.

After two away series to kick off the campaign, the Yankees will travel back to the Bronx for the home opener against the Marlins on April 3rd. The first matchup with the Red Sox is at Fenway for three games beginning April 21st, though the two teams won’t face off for another two months after that, with a pair of June series before wrapping up the season series in the Bronx at the end of August. The Subway Series will bookend the regular season, the Yankees traveling to Flushing on May 15th but not seeing their crosstown rivals again until September 11th at Yankee Stadium. At this time, MLB will observe the 25th anniversary of the 2001 attacks (they did the same for the 20th).

There is also a marquee matchup against the Dodgers to open the second half, the cross-country rivals traveling to Yankee Stadium for the first series after the All-Star break. There do not appear to be a ton of soft landing spots throughout the season, though a pair of stretches early in the first and second halves look like imperative stretches to create positive momentum. It behooves the Yankees to make hay in early April with series against the Marlins, Athletics, and Angels over a 16-day span, and then again in late July with series against the Pirates and White Sox to finish the month. Success in the latter stretch will hopefully create a head of steam with a daunting August that sees a pair of series against the Blue Jays as well as matchups with the Mariners, Astros, and Red Sox.

You can find the full schedule (plus a “Freddy Sez” tribute of sorts from the Yankees) in the posts below.