Nats to open 2025 season at home vs. Phillies

By Mark Zuckerman

Masn Nationals

July 18, 2024, 1:29pm

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The Nationals will open next season at home against a familiar foe.

Major League Baseball unveiled its 2025 schedule this afternoon, with the Nats hosting the Phillies on Opening Day, which falls on March 27. This will be the third time they’ve faced Philadelphia to open a season, though the first time since 2010.

After the three-game series against their division rivals, the Nationals go north of the border for a quick trip to face the Blue Jays in Toronto before coming right back home for six games against the Diamondbacks and Dodgers.

The Nats will embark on a pair of three-city trips, one of them crisscrossing the country, the other taking them to the three big league ballparks in Southern California. They make the unconventional Miami-Pittsburgh-Colorado trip from April 11-20, then have the more manageable Los Angeles-San Diego-Anaheim trio from June 20-29.

There are no three-series homestands on the schedule.

The Battle of the Beltways expands from four games to six games next season, with the Orioles coming to D.C. from April 22-24 and the Nats heading to Baltimore from May 16-18.

The Red Sox will be here for the annual July 4 series, which opens that day and runs through July 6. The Nationals play at Yankee Stadium from Aug. 25-27.

The regular season ends Sept. 26-28 at home against the White Sox.