The Dodgers schedule for next season is out, and we won’t have to wake up at 3 a.m. PT to watch their first game of the year. It’s back to normal beginning next March 26, starting at home against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Let’s dig into some of the details of the 2026 slate.
Unlike this season, which began domestically against the Tigers and will end with the Mariners, the Dodgers next year will both begin and end with not only National League teams but against teams within their own division.
NL West games
The main
divisional opponent can switch from year to year, but we’re currently in year four of the last six with the Padres providing the most immediate threat within the NL West. So let’s start with them for 2026.
The Dodgers are in San Diego from May 18-20 and June 26-28, the latter a weekend series. Those two teams fight at Dodger Stadium from July 2-5 (a four-game series, one weekend after the San Diego tilt) and September 22-24, the latter the penultimate series of the regular season.
The Dodgers end the season in San Francisco from September 25-27, one weekend after the Giants play three games in Los Angeles. The Dodgers also play Giants on the road from April 21-23, and for four games from May 11-14 in Los Angeles.
After the D-backs open the season at Dodger Stadium, they return to Los Angeles from July 10-12. The two teams play in Arizona from June 1-4 and August 7-9.
The Dodgers’ first trip to Coors Field is a four-game affair from April 17-20, a wraparound series that runs from Friday to Monday. The Dodgers host the Rockies in Los Angeles from May 25-27 and July 6-8, then return to Denver from August 17-19.
Another Sunday off day
Because the season starts on a Thursday — well, except for the Giants and Yankees opening a night early on Wednesday, March 25 in San Francisco — and there’s no real need for a built-in weather off day like in other cities, the Dodgers’ opening three-game series with the Diamondbacks runs Thursday to Saturday, which gives Los Angeles a scheduled Sunday off day for a fifth year in a row.
This season they were off on March 30 after the opening Tigers series. Before that the Sunday off day came after a two-game series against the Angels — on June 23 in 2024, and before that the Sunday before the All-Star break in both 2022 and 2023.
Interleague play
The Dodgers next season will add a new ballpark to their splits history, playing the A’s at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento from June 29-July 1. That ends a June that is very interleague-heavy, with 17 of 27 games during the month against American League teams, including a stretch in which six out of eight series are of the interleague variety.
The Dodgers’ two series against the Angels both come on the weekend — May 15-17 in Anaheim, and June 5-7 in Los Angeles.
Three of the Dodgers’ first five series next season are against AL teams, hosting the Guardians on the opening homestand, then playing the Blue Jays in Toronto from April 6-8 and hosting the Rangers from April 10-12.
Out of the All-Star break the Dodgers have one hell of a road trip, facing the Yankees from July 17-19, when the Mets at Citi Field from July 24-26. In between, the Dodgers play the Phillies in Philadelphia from July 20-22.
Other notes
That New York/Philadelphia road trip is tied for the longest of the season for the Dodgers, along with June 22-July 1 to Minnesota, San Diego, and the aforementioned trip to West Sacramento.
The longest 2026 homestand for the Dodgers is a 10-gamer over 11 days from July 2-12, with four games against the Padres and three each against the Rockies and D-backs. That finishes off the Dodgers’ schedule heading into the All-Star break. The Dodgers also have a nine-game homestand from September 1-9 against the Cardinals, Nationals, and Reds.
The only truncated season series in 2026 is against the Reds, seven games in 11 days from September 7-17 right near the end of the season. The first three of those are at Dodger Stadium before four games the next week at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.
