TwitterThe 2013 Schedule
12 Sep 2012
I always like when MLB issues the schedule for next year as it gives you a chance to dream of some exciting matchups next season. For the Yankees let’s take it month by month.
Opening Day is a home game and it is April 1st vs the Red Sox. That should be good. They then take a trip to the Midwest with games in Detroit and Cleveland before returning home to face the 2012 AL East champion Orioles (kidding I think) Their first interleague series will be a good one, Arizona returning to Yankee Stadium is always entertaining and then it’s back on the road to face Toronto and Tampa before coming home to face Tampa. The month closes out with a series against the AL’s newest club, Houston.
The 2012 AL Champion A’s visit during the first weekend of May. The Yankees then play their second interleague season in Colorado before swinging through Kansas City and then a homestand against the Mariners and Blue Jays. A quick jaunt to Baltimore and Tampa will be followed by a four-game Subway Series, two at Citi and two at the Stadium. The Yankees close out May and open June hosting Boston again.
Cleveland follows the Red Sox and then the Yankees do their first swing out to the left coast with the usually nine-game swing through Seattle, Oakland and Anaheim. They come home for two home games versus the Dodgers. (It will be weird to see Mattingly in a road uniform.) The Rays and 2012 World Series champion Rangers follow the Dodgers into the Stadium. A road trip to Baltimore on the final weekend of June wraps up the month and gives me an excuse to go get some blue crabs.
July opens with four games in Minnesota before the Orioles, Royals and Twins come to town. The Yankees’ All-Stars will then take a bus seven miles to Citi Field for the All-Star Game followed by their first visit to Boston of 2013! They then head to Texas for four and return home to face Tampa. The Yankees then play two in LA against the Dodgers to close out July.
Three games in San Diego open August followed by three in Chicago against the White Sox. Detroit and Anaheim come in for a homestand and then the Yankees head back to Boston, come home for three against Toronto and then play the Rays and Jays on the road before closing out the month at home against Baltimore.
That Orioles’ series kicks off September with the White Sox and Red Sox closing out the homestand. The Yankees play the next 10 on the road with 4 in Baltimore, 3 in Boston and 3 in Toronto. They return home to face the Giants in their final interleague series and the Rays before closing things out in Houston.
So, some weird things that stick out are the fact that the Yankees will visit Boston 9 times after the All-Star Break. Only four games against the Mets and ending the season in Houston.
Only 200 days to Opening Day!
Sep 12, 2012 @ 14:42:18
I’ve had a countdown to opening day running in my head for a lot longer than you seem to be looking ahead…
Sep 12, 2012 @ 16:47:42
Don’t give up on this year just yet.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 16:50:48
Nah, I always look at the schedule when it is released. Here’s my post from 2009, when I definitely wasn’t looking ahead…
http://yankeesredsox.com/blog/2009/09/2010_should_be_fun.html
Sep 12, 2012 @ 19:50:00
Hmm, you’ve made references to the “2012 AL East champion Orioles”, the “2012 AL Champion A’s” (did you mean the “2012 AL Wild Card Champion A’s”?) and the “2012 World Series champion Rangers”. What exactly are you trying to insinuate?!?
Its going to take me some time to get used to thinking of the Astros as an AL club. That will be weird.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 20:28:39
Greg
Just trying to have some fun, I was actually trying to award every team but the Yankees a title, but then I got bored with it.
When I first looked at the schedule I was furious because I thought it meant the Yankees would have to play their final three games without the DH. Then I remembered, Houston is an AL team in three weeks. That feels wrong to me, they should have forced the Brewers back into the AL.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 20:51:43
“they should have forced the Brewers back into the AL. ”
why? I ask because there is less and less that relates to the old days in baseball.
There are wild cards, now extra wild cards, interleague play (not generally equal team by team) and games played in batting practice ugly jerseys (pet peeve of mine, ok).
I say lets go back to 1972, no DH, 24 teams – imagine how great every team would be if there were only 24. wow. What’s up with helmets on those base coaches? Take em off. Bring back the cookie cutter artificial turf stadiums and Mel Allen and TWIB. Bring it all back, then and only then can you move the Brewers back into the AL East of old.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 21:16:31
BL- The Brewers only left 15 years ago! I’m ok with contracting six teams but I have no idea which ones to contract. I would also accept a lack of DH, though watching pitchers hit is like watching paint dry in my mind.
As for turf, it was terrible and so were those parks. They stay in the past. And, a base coach was killed, so I am all for the helmets, saftey first.
Mel Allen, bring him back along with Ernie Harwell, Jack Buck, Harry Carey and Phil Rizzuto because I miss the Scooter.
Let’s also bring back the league presidents, umpires for each league and those spiffy red coats the AL umps used to wear.
And while we are at it, can I invest some money in the December 1980 Apple IPO? I think this Jobs fella might be onto something.
Sep 12, 2012 @ 22:51:41
Psss on the Apple IPO.
Bet on Gates in the 80s.
Wait for 2006 or so to jump on Apple.
Sep 13, 2012 @ 02:24:32
That’s the spirit, BL! And another thing: World Series games played on Saturdays and Sundays must be played during the day, they cannot be played at night!
Investing in the ’80s? Buy Cisco in ’88, sell in ’99. Trust me on this.
Sep 13, 2012 @ 09:46:33
Greg
Day games for the World Series is a great one.
Yeah, Cisco would have been a good one. So would have Microsoft. Don’t forget to sell all your gold in the 80′s. You can buy it back for the same price in 2002.