List of Major League Baseball games played outside the United States and Canada
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Major League Baseball (MLB) has played multiple regular season games outside of the United States and Canada. Beginning with the 2023 season, these games are branded as MLB World Tour.
Locations of Major League Baseball games played outside the United States and Canada
To date, major-league regular-season games have been contested in five countries outside of the United States and Canada: Australia (Sydney), Japan (Tokyo), Mexico (Mexico City and Monterrey), South Korea (Seoul), and the United Kingdom (London).
The first MLB World Tour games (as they are now known) were contested in Mexico in 1996 and 1999. From 2000 through 2012, eight such games were contested, all in Japan. Two games were played in Australia in 2014, followed by three games in Mexico in 2018. The 2019 season saw a total of eight games played in Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Following a three year pause, Mexico and the United Kingdom each hosted a two-game series in 2023. In 2024, MLB teams played two-game series in Seoul, Mexico City, and London.
Exhibition contests, such as preseason games or postseason all-star games, are not included in the list below. Several such contests can be found in the See also section.
There has been one extra innings game: March 21, 2019 (12 innings).
Canceled games
In May 2019, MLB announced that the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals would play a two-game series in London in June 2020, to be known as the 2020 MLB London Series. Additionally, in December 2019, the league announced that the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres would play a two-game series in Mexico City in April 2020. These would have been the first regular-season MLB games in Mexico City. Both of these series were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In August 2019, MLB announced a three-game series between the New York Mets and Miami Marlins at Estadio Hiram Bithorn to be played in April 2020. This series was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On April 3, 2024, the commissioner of Japanese baseball, Sadayuki Sakakibara, told reporters that the 2025 MLB season would open in Japan on March 19–20, which would be the first MLB games played in the country since 2019 (and the first played under World Tour branding); teams and location have yet to be confirmed, and MLB has yet to confirm Sakakibara's statement.
MLB had planned to host games at the Stade de France, just outside Paris, starting in 2025. The games would be the first MLB regular-season games to be contested in mainland Europe. The new Stade de France series was intended to alternate with the London series, with games being held in London in 2024 & 2026, and in Paris in 2025. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees have expressed interest in playing in the Paris series. However, in late 2023, the Associated Press reported that MLB was scrapping plans to play in Paris in 2025, having been unable to find a promoter for the event. MLB has not confirmed the cancellation, although it was mentioned on MLB.com's news site, by David Adler (a reporter for MLB.com based in New York), in a news article about the 2024 London Series event.
See also
American Series, MLB and Negro league spring training games played in Cuba before the 1960 Cuban Revolution
^Adler, David (November 23, 2023). "Tickets for London Series featuring Phillies-Mets on sale now". MLB.com. Retrieved June 12, 2024. MLB's plans to play in Paris in 2025 have been scratched due to scheduling issues with Stade de France; the venue was not able to provide the necessary time needed to build a Major League-quality baseball field.