For the third consecutive season, the Twins will open the baseball season in Missouri.
Twins will have earliest Opening Day in franchise history in 2025
St. Louis will be the site of the Twins’ first game next year on March 27, with the home opener set for April 3 against Houston.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
July 19, 2024 at 1:13AM
Just one 250-mile difference.
The Twins and Cardinals will play at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on March 27, 2025, the earliest Opening Day in franchise history. The Twins will also stop in Chicago to meet the White Sox before arriving at Target Field for their April 3 home opener against the Houston Astros.
After opening the 2023 and ’24 seasons in Kansas City, the Twins must wait until April 7 to travel to Kaufmann Stadium in 2025, MLB announced Thursday in unveiling all 30 teams’ schedules.
The games in St. Louis will mark the second time the Twins have ever opened with an interleague series, having started the 2021 season in Milwaukee. And it’s the 12th time in 16 seasons since moving out of the Metrodome that the Twins will open the season on the road, in hopes of avoiding any late-March snowstorms. This time, the Twins will play 10 of their first 13 games on the road.
The Twins, who lost their season opener eight consecutive seasons from 2009 to ‘16, are 29-34 on Opening Day since moving to Minnesota in 1961.
Baseball’s 2025 schedule includes Sacramento for the first time, the new, if temporary, home of the Oakland Athletics. The Twins’ first-ever visit to California’s capital city comes June 2-5.
Another change: Each team will meet its designated interleague “rival” — the Milwaukee Brewers, in the Twins’ case — six times instead of four, three of them coming May 16-18 in Milwaukee, on a new leaguewide “rivalry weekend.”
In addition to the Brewers, National League teams scheduled to visit Target Field in 2025 include the New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals — all NL teams the Twins play on the road this season.
The 2025 season will end as it started — on the road in a NL ballpark. The season-ending road trip visits Arlington, Texas, to play the Rangers, and Philadelphia, to meet the Phillies.
TWINS 2025 SCHEDULE
March 27, 29-30 at St. Louis
March 31-April 2 at Chicago White Sox
April 3, 5-6 Houston
April 7-10 at Kansas City
April 11-13 Detroit
April 14-16 New York Mets
April 18-20 at Atlanta
April 22-24, Chicago White Sox
April 25-27 Los Angeles Angels
April 28-30, May 1 at Cleveland
May 2-4 at Boston
May 6-8 Baltimore
May 9-11 San Francisco
May 13-15 at Baltimore
May 16-18 at Milwaukee
May 19-21 Cleveland
May 23-25 Kansas City
May 26-28 Tampa Bay
May 30-31, June 1 at Seattle
June 2-5 at Athletics (in Sacramento)
June 6-8 Toronto
June 10-12 Texas
June 13-15 at Houston
June 17-19 at Cincinnati
June 20-22 Milwaukee
June 23-26 Seattle
June 27-29 at Detroit
July 1-3 at Miami
July 4-6 at Tampa Bay
July 8-10 Chicago Cubs
July 11-13 Pittsburgh
July 14-17 All-Star Break (July 15 game in Atlanta)
July 18-20 at Colorado
July 21-23 at Los Angeles Dodgers
July 25-27 Washington
July 28-30 Boston
Aug. 1-3 at Cleveland
Aug. 4-6 at Detroit
Aug. 8-10 Kansas City
Aug. 11-13 at New York Yankees
Aug. 14-17 Detroit
Aug. 19-21 Athletics
Aug. 22-24 at Chicago White Sox
Aug. 25-27 at Toronto
Aug. 29-31 San Diego
Sept. 1-4 Chicago White Sox
Sept. 5-7 at Kansas City
Sept. 8-10 at Los Angeles Angels
Sept. 12-14 Arizona
Sept. 15-17 New York Yankees
Sept. 19-21 Cleveland
Sept. 23-25 at Texas
Sept. 26-28 at Philadelphia
The Blue Jays hit four home runs — three of them two-run shots, including two in a row to start the game and chase rookie Zebby Matthews early.
