Never too early to look at 2010 MLB schedule
I’m not sure if you heard, but the Yankees and Red Sox are rivals. And ESPN likes to show their games and talk about them occasionally on “SportsCenter” or “Baseball Tonight.”
Well, the 2009 season isn’t even over with yet, but let the preseason Yankee-Red Sox hype already begin, as those two will not only open next year against each other but also finish it together. It’s just the fifth time in 50 years the rivals both start and finish against each other.
Most openers are set for April 5, 2010, but expect ESPN to shift the Yankees and Red Sox for the Sunday night game April 4. In the past 50 years, the Yankees also opened and closed against Boston in 1960, 1970, 1992 and 2005, according to STATS LLC. The only times they both started and finished in Boston were 1938 and 1950. Either the Yankees or Red Sox have won the AL East in 10 of the past 11 years, and the Yanks will this year.
Meanwhile, the Minnesota Twins will open their new Target Field on April 12 against the Red Sox. The last season of Twins outdoor baseball was back in 1981, in the first year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the last year of old Metropolitan Stadium.
The interleague schedule for next year features the following matchups: NL West vs. AL East, NL East facing the AL Central and the NL Central vs. the AL West. Interleague games begin May 21.
That means Joe Torre’s Dodgers will be visiting Yankee Stadium next June.
“It’s going to be great, because my first year in the big leagues [current Yankees manager Joe] Girardi was the bench coach and Torre was the manager,” Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano said. “It would be great to see Girardi on one side and Torre on the other side. That would be fun.”
Barring a change to the schedule, it would be the Dodgers’ first visit to the Bronx since the 1981 World Series.
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