Brewers will open 2023 season at Wrigley Field
Another opening day at Wrigley Field, a balanced schedule and a pair of 10-game road trips are the highlights of the Milwaukee Brewers' 2023 schedule, which was released Wednesday by Major League Baseball.
The Brewers open against the Chicago Cubs on March 30 and play a three-game series against their Central Division rivals, with a weather off-day built in March 31.
The team then heads north to Milwaukee for its first home series, which will feature the New York Mets for the opener (April 3-5) and then the St. Louis Cardinals (April 7-9) visiting American Family Field.
The Brewers' first true road trip comes next and will be a challenging one, with three games at Arizona (April 10-12), four at San Diego (April 13-16) and three at Seattle (April 1719).
It will be the first trip to Seattle for Milwaukee since 2016.
There will be plenty of other uncommon trips for the Brewers as well as they, along with the rest of MLB, will begin playing a new, balanced schedule.
It will feature teams playing division opponents five fewer times with one series against every team in the other league as a replacement while also keeping in place each team's interleague rival. In the Brewers' case, that's the Minnesota Twins.
That means Milwaukee will host the Boston Red Sox (April 21-23), Detroit Tigers (April 24-26), Los Angeles Angels (April 28-30), Kansas City Royals (May 12-14), Houston Astros (May 22-24), Baltimore Orioles (June 6-8) and Oakland Athletics (June 911) as well as Minnesota (Aug. 22-23).
The Brewers will travel to face the Seattle Mariners (April 17-19), Tampa Bay Rays (May 19-21), Toronto Blue
Jays (May 30-June 1), Minnesota Twins (June 13-14), Cleveland Guardians (June 23-25), Chicago White Sox (Aug. 11-13), Texas Rangers (Aug. 18-20) and New York Yankees (Sept. 8-10).
The series in Texas will be Milwaukee's first since 2016, and the team's first to Globe Life Field in the regular season. The teams played an exhibition series there to close spring training in 2021.
Milwaukee will then travel in 2024 to face all the American League teams it hosts in 2023, and vice versa.
Each team will play 46 interleague games.
Also as a result of the balanced schedule, the Brewers will face the Cubs, Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates 14 times each, seven at home and seven on the road, rather than the current 19.
Milwaukee's second 10-day road trip will also come before the all-star break, with the the Brewers traveling to face Cleveland (June 23-25), the Mets (June 26-29) and the Pittsburgh Pirates (June 30-July 2).
The longest homestand of the season is a nine-game stretch April 21-30 against Boston, Detroit and the Los Angeles Angels.
The Brewers also play 16 home games over the final month, with three against the Cardinals (Sept. 26-28) and three against the Cubs (Sept. 29Oct. 1) to close out the regular season.