Cubs schedule released for 2019 |
CHICAGO – Major League Baseball and the Chicago Cubs today announced the tentative 2019 regular season schedule. The Cubs will open their 144th season at the Texas Rangers on Thursday, March 28 with the Wrigley Field opener taking place Monday, April 8, against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Cubs will begin the 2019 campaign on the road for the fourth year in a row, the 14th time in the last 18 seasons, and for the first time ever against Texas. The Cubs will open in interleague play for the second time in four years, as the club began their 2016 World Championship season at the Los Angeles Angels. The Cubs open their Wrigley Field campaign against the Pittsburgh Pirates for the second year in a row, marking the first time the club will play back-to-back home openers vs. the same club since 1991-92 vs. St. Louis. After three games at the Rangers (March 28, 30-31), the Cubs continue their season-opening 11-day, nine-game, three-city road trip with three games in Atlanta (April 1, 3-4) and conclude with three games at Milwaukee April 5-7. The Cubs begin their Wrigley Field slate the next day against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the start of a season-opening seven-day, six-game homestand against the Pirates (April 8, 10-11) and Los Angeles Angels (April 12-14). The 2019 schedule features interleague play against the American League West plus the annual home-and-home with the Chicago White Sox, which features a pair of two-game series from June 18-19 (at Wrigley Field) and July 6-7 (at Guaranteed Rate Field). In addition to the White Sox games, the Cubs interleague schedule includes hosting three A.L. West opponents: the Los Angeles Angels (the three aforementioned games), the Oakland Athletics (three games, August 5-7) and the Seattle Mariners (two games, September 2-3). The Cubs also travel to Texas (three games to open the season), to Seattle (two games, April 30-May 1) and to Houston (three games, May 27-29). The Cubs 2019 tentative schedule features four three-series homestands and four three-city road trips after there were only two three-series homestands and two three-city road trips in 2018, one of which was increased to four cities due to a rain out. The Cubs are scheduled to host two holiday games in 2019: Mother’s Day, May 12 vs. Milwaukee and Labor Day, September 2 vs. Seattle. The Cubs will be on the road for three holidays: Memorial Day Monday, May 27 at Houston, Father’s Day on June 16 at the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Fourth of July in Pittsburgh. Here's the #Cubs' regular-season schedule in 2019 pic.twitter.com/bEoSB7rRue
