Texas Rangers release 2024 regular season schedule, featuring another opening day at home
If there is something still to celebrate about the 2023 season, the Texas Rangers will be in perfect position to do it to start the 2024 schedule. And they will get a pretty early start on it, too.
And, of course, all of Major League Baseball will celebrate in Arlington when the All-Star Game comes to Globe Life Field on July 16.
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For the second consecutive year, the Rangers will begin the season at home, opening with the Chicago Cubs on March 28 at Globe Life Field. March 28 matches the earliest the Rangers have begun a season. They also began 2018 against the Cubs in Arlington.
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The schedule also gives the Rangers a chance for a fast start at home, just as they did this season. They play 10 of their first 13 games at home in 2024; they opened 2023 with nine of 12 in Arlington. The catch to the 2024 schedule: The first trip is a three-game series at current AL East leader Tampa Bay and the Rangers play four games against their archrivals, Houston, in the first two weeks.
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The schedule includes 52 intra-division games, 13 apiece against Houston, the Los Angeles Angels, Oakland and Seattle. The Rangers have an extra home game against the Astros and Angels and play one extra road game against Oakland and Seattle. In a twist, the Rangers and Astros will not see each other at all in September. They finish up their season series August 5-7 in Arlington.
Under the new schedule, which began for 2023, the Rangers play every club in the majors for a total of 46 interleague games. The Rangers will host all the teams they traveled to face in 2023: the Cubs, Cincinnati, New York Mets, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington. They will play two games home-and-away against Arizona, their designated rivalry.
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That means the Rangers will play at St. Louis for three games from July 29-31 leading up to the trade deadline. It’s only the third regular season trip to St. Louis, the NL opponent they’ve least visited.
Other highlights from the schedule:
— Rangers pitching will get tested early. The Rangers have a 17-day stretch without an off day in April. The Rangers didn’t play more than 10 days without an off day in March/April this season.
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— May will once again include a lot of travel. The Rangers are home for only 10 games in May and have travel that will take them to four different time zones: Central (Kansas City and Minnesota on separate trips), Eastern (Philadelphia and Miami on separate trips), Mountain (Colorado) and Pacific (Oakland).
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— The two longest road trips are sandwiched into the end of April and early May, giving the Rangers a stretch in which they play 19 of 28 games on the road. If there is any “saving grace,” to that, it’s that the second of those two trips is to perpetually-rebuilding Kansas City, Oakland and Colorado. Those teams entered the All-Star break this season a combined 104 games below .500.
— The Rangers’ first scheduled traditional doubleheader since 1991 at Oakland on May 8.
— The Rangers are, oddly, off on Memorial Day Monday, but are home on July 4th (against San Diego) and Labor Day (against the New York Yankees).
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— With the All-Star Game and its accompanying set of lead-up events, it requires the Rangers to close out the first half of the season on the road. That means a week-long trip to the Angels and Astros before the break.
— The Rangers play 16 of their last 28 games in Arlington but close out the season with a trip to Oakland and the Angels. Of note: Every road game the Rangers play in the final month of the season will effectively be on Pacific Time with a two-hour difference. They play at Arizona, Seattle, Oakland and Los Angeles ahead of the Sept. 29 finish.
2024 Rangers schedule
The 2024 Texas Rangers regular season schedule. (Texas Rangers)
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