The 2025 season isn’t over but, however Yankees followers can already begin planning for subsequent season after MLB launched the 2026 schedule on Tuesday.
Maybe the largest event on the Yankees’ schedule is a Sept. 11 contest with the Mets at Yankee Stadium. The matchup, which is able to open a three-game sequence, takes place on the twenty fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist assaults.
“It will be quite emotional for a lot of people,” Aaron Boone mentioned, although he famous a few of his gamers usually are not sufficiently old to recollect the assaults. “I would imagine you’ll see a lot of that emotion in the building, in the crowd, in the pregame ceremonies and introductions. You always hope as a ballplayer or as a team — as an industry — that you go out and represent such a meaningful day in a positive way.”
The Yankees and Mets additionally performed one another on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 in 2021. That recreation was performed in entrance of a packed crowd at Citi Subject.
“I recall it well,” Boone mentioned, including that present Yankees coach Luis Rojas was the Mets’ supervisor on the time. “Both teams went out, and I remember the evening pretty well. I don’t know if electric’s the right word, but there was a palpable energy in the stadium.”
Right here is the #Yankees‘ complete 2026 common season schedule: pic.twitter.com/cFJzAeOq73
With the 9/11 matchup greater than a 12 months away, one other spotlight on the Yankees’ 2026 schedule is a season-opening highway journey to San Francisco and Seattle. The Yankees and Giants will truly kick off the 2026 season after they play on March 25. The remainder of the league will start play the subsequent day.
There are additionally back-to-back sequence in Chicago in opposition to the White Sox and Cubs from July 27-Aug. 2 that can overlap with the commerce deadline; journeys to Nationwide League cities Washington, Milwaukee, San Diego and Arizona; and a six-game homestand in opposition to the division rival Rays and Orioles to shut the season.
The Yankees will first play the Purple Sox in Boston from April 21-23, whereas the primary Subway Sequence will happen in Queens from Could 15-17.
