With just over a month left in the 2025 season, Major League Baseball on Tuesday released the 2026 schedules for all 30 teams.

The New York Mets will open their 2026 campaign on Thursday, March 26, at Citi Field against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The teams will have a day off on Friday and continue the three-game opening weekend series.

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The Mets will then bounce back and forth between the West Coast and East Coast for the next several weeks. They will first go West for a seven-game road trip that includes games against the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants before returning to New York for six games, then they head right back out to California to take on the Dodgers before heading to Chicago.

The biggest weekend on the Mets 2026 schedule will be September 11-13. Major League Baseball, in a very touching schedule placement, has the Mets and Yankees playing their second Subway Series of the year at Yankee Stadium to honor the 25th anniversary of 9/11. The two teams last played each other on that day back in 2021 when they honored the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

As it was in 2021, the weekend will be bigger than baseball. It will be a weekend that brings together the city, and the nation, as it honors and remembers all those who lost their lives on that tragic day.

Other highlights from the 2026 schedule include:

  • In what will be a special weekend for the Dodgers, the Mets will take on Los Angeles on Jackie Robinson Day April 15, which will conclude the three game series between the two teams.
  • May 1-10 will see the Mets at least two hours behind, as they’ll hop from Los Angeles to Denver to Arizona to play the Angels, Rockies, and Diamondbacks.
  • During MLB’s rivalry weekend May 15-17, the Mets will host the first subway series of the year against the Yankees at Citi Field.
  • On June 2, Lou Gehrig Day across MLB, the Mets will be in Seattle to play the Mariners.
  • The Fourth of July will feature all 30 teams in action, and the Mets will spend the weekend playing a crucial four-game series against the Atlanta Braves in Georgia.
  • No West Coast games after June 7!
  • The Mets start the second half in Philadelphia… right after the All-Star Game in Philadelphia.

The Mets will end their regular season in Washington against the Nationals on September 27.