The sites for the interleague games will alternate each year. The only scheduled two-game series for the Orioles will be the annual home-and-away games against the Nationals, and there will be a three-game series against the other 14 National League teams. Instead of 16 interleague games, there will be 46. The biggest change is that, like in the NBA and NHL, each major league team will play each other every year. Instead of 76 games against the AL East and 70 against the Central and West, it will be 56 games against the East and 60 against the Central and West. There will no longer be any scheduled four-game series between the Orioles and AL Central and West teams. In 2023, the Orioles will play six games-three at home, and three away-with each of the other 10 American League teams. From June 21 st-July 13 th, they’ll play 20 straight against teams not in the AL East. The Orioles are in their longest stretch of not playing the AL East. This year, the Orioles played against the AL East exclusively from May 16 th-May 30 th, 15 consecutive games, One team in each division must play out of the division at all times, but having most of the Orioles’ games against the AL East in April and September might not be as interesting as spacing them out. When the 2023 schedule is released, it will be fascinating to see if Major League Baseball will want to begin and end the season with divisional play as they have in the past. The Orioles will play a three-game series and a four-game series at home and away with each of the four divisional rivals. Those quirks should be eliminated with the new schedule. In the final 101 games, the Orioles and Toronto play 19 times, but not in Baltimore until August 8 th. They didn’t play the Blue Jays until June 13 tth. The Orioles were supposed to open the season with a series against Toronto at home, but because of the lockout that series will end the season from October 3 rd-5 th. Theoretically, the series can be spread out, and the Orioles could play the Yankees a series once a month from April-September, but it never works out that way. In the current system, each AL teams plays three series at home and away against each other. The front-loaded schedule leaves just six games between the teams in the final four-plus months of the season. The Orioles played the Yankees in 13 of their first 45 games. Beginning next year, the Orioles will play just 14 games against AL East teams, a total of 56 games.įans can get tired seeing the same teams over and over again. The Orioles have played 19 games against each team in the AL East-76 in all, nearly half their schedule. Since 2001, Oriole fans have seen a lot of their American League East divisional rivals - Boston, New York, Tampa Bay and Toronto.
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