Nationals announce 2025 schedule

The Washington Nationals, in conjunction with Major League Baseball, announced their 2025 schedule on Thursday. Washington will open the 2025 season at home against the division rival Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday, March 27 – the earliest start to the season in Nationals history (2005-pres.). The three-game series against Philadelphia marks the first time the Nationals have hosted the Phillies on Opening Day since April 5, 2010.

Following the opening series, the Nationals will travel to Toronto to face the Blue Jays for three games before returning to Washington, D.C., for a six-game homestand against the Arizona Diamondbacks (April 4-6) and Los Angeles Dodgers (April 7-9).

Washington will embark on the team’s two 10-day road trips before July. The first – from April 11 to 20 – will include matchups against the Miami Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies. The second 10-day road trip (June 20-29) will take the club across Southern California, beginning in Los Angeles against the Dodgers, down to San Diego to face the Padres and back up to Anaheim to take on the Los Angeles Angels.

The annual Beltway Series vs. the Baltimore Orioles expands to six games in 2024, renewing Tuesday through Thursday, April 22-24, at Nationals Park and in Baltimore from Friday through Sunday, May 16-18. The May series will be a part of “Rivalry Weekend” across Major League Baseball.

Memorial Day weekend will feature a visit from the San Francisco Giants, Friday through Sunday, May 23-25, while the Nationals will also be home over Labor Day weekend with a homestand against the Tampa Bay Rays (Aug. 29-31) and Miami Marlins (Sept. 1-3).

The Nationals will host the Boston Red Sox for a three-game weekend series Friday through Sunday, July 4-6, highlighted by the traditional Fourth of July game at Nationals Park. That homestand kicks off earlier in the week with a three-game series against the Detroit Tigers from Tuesday through Thursday, July 1-3. Following that homestand, Washington will enjoy a day off on July 7 before travelling to St. Louis and Milwaukee for a six-game road trip prior to the All-Star break, marking the second consecutive season in which the Nationals close out the season’s first half in Milwaukee.

Washington will host San Diego (July 18-20) and Cincinnati (July 21-23) to open the second half before hitting the road at Minnesota (July 25-27) and Houston (July 28-30).

The Nationals will cap off the 2025 season with a three-game weekend series against the Chicago White Sox from Friday through Sunday, Sept. 26-28. It will be the earliest end to a regular season since Washington finished the 2020 season on Sept. 27. Prior to that, the Nationals have not completed the regular season schedule this early since Sept. 28, 2014.