Detroit Tigers release 2020 schedule

Major League Baseball released the full schedules for all 30 teams for the 2020 season on Monday afternoon. The Detroit Tigers are included in this group, naturally, so we have their slate for the upcoming season to peruse.

The Tigers will open their season in Cleveland on Thursday, March 26, as part of a brief three-game road trip. This coincides with MLB’s recent movement to have all 30 teams open on the same day (weather permitting, of course). The game time has not yet been released, but odds are the Tigers will be one of the first clubs to get going.

From there, the schedule gets... repetitive. The Tigers will alternate series with Cleveland and the Kansas City Royals for the first two weeks of the season, then finally play a different team (the Los Angeles Angels) on April 10. After that, it’s back to Cleveland — yes, really — before a series with the Twins. And just in case that wasn’t enough repetition for you, the Tigers have two series with the New York Yankees in short order to close out the month.

We’ll dive into some deeper schedule analysis later, but here are the quick takeaways.

• The Tigers’ home opener is on Monday, March 30 against the Royals.
• The Tigers only have one week of afternoon home games in April before getting to night games, as the baseball gods intended.
• The AL Central will play the NL West in interleague play this season. The Tigers will see the Padres and Rockies at home, the Diamondbacks and Dodgers on the road, and the Giants and Pirates in both home and away series.
• The Tigers will get most of their West Coast travel out of the way in a six-week period between May and June, with only a mid-week trip to Los Angeles remaining in early July before the All-Star break.
• The Tigers’ final 16 games of the season are against AL Central foes.

Here is the full schedule in all its glory.