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Red Sox announce 2009 schedule

Posted by Chad Finn, Globe Staff September 17, 2008 01:24 PM

The Red Sox will begin the 2009 season at home -- their first season-opener at Fenway Park since 2002 and just their second since 1996 -- and their opponent will be a familiar one.

Red Sox 2009 scheduleThe Red Sox today unveiled their schedule for next season (click here for the complete version), and the new season will begin April 6 with the opener of a three-game series against the team they are currently battling for the American League East title, the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Sox will not meet their more traditional rival until a few weeks later, when the Yankees come to Fenway for a weekend series April 24-26. The Sox will make their first visit to the new Yankee Stadium for a Monday-Tuesday two-game set May 4-5.

The Red Sox will play a total of 72 games against their AL East rivals -- 18 each with the Rays, Yankees, Orioles, and Blue Jays.

The Yankees will also come to Fenway for a midweek series June 9-11 and a weekend series Aug. 21-23, while the teams will meet in the Bronx Aug. 6-9 (a four-game series) and Sept. 25-27, the Sox' final three road games of the regular season.

All 18 of the Red Sox' interleague games will be against National League East opponents. The Sox open interleague play with a three-game series against the Mets at Fenway May 22-24. After a trio of games at Philadelphia June 12-14, they will have a day off, then will host Florida and Atlanta in a pair of three-game matchups from June 16-21.

They will complete the interleague portion of their schedule with a six-game road swing at Washington (June 23-25) and Atlanta (June 26-28).

After the season-opening series against the Rays, the Sox head to California for three-game sets with the Los Angeles Angels and Oakland A's.

The Sox will return to Fenway for a nine-game homestand with Baltimore, Minnesota, and the Yankees, April 17-26. The Sox have a pair of 10-game homestands, July 3-12 with Seattle, Oakland, and Kansas City, and Aug. 21-30 with the Yankees, White Sox, and Toronto.

The Red Sox will end the regular season with a seven-game homestand, beginning with three games with the Jays (Sept. 28-30) and concluding with four games versus the Indians (Oct. 1-4).

Game times will be finalized and announced at a later date.

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31 comments so far...

  1. No Patriots Day game???

    Posted by Rick September 17, 08 01:55 PM

  1. my bad, its Apr 20 next year...

    Posted by Rick September 17, 08 01:57 PM

  1. 2009; the year we Three-Peat....after we Repeat 2008 WS Champions !!

    Posted by Kevin September 17, 08 02:36 PM

  1. 20 game stretch with no off days to end the season? Wow..

    Posted by Adam September 17, 08 03:23 PM

  1. Awesome...get to see the Sox come visit Atlanta again. And for a weekend series to boot.

    Posted by Tyrone Biggums September 17, 08 03:32 PM

  1. ^ Adam - yeah, that's a pretty brutal end. Add a couple of make-up games from earlier rain-outs, and that will make a postseason push pretty hard, I'd imagine...

    Posted by Booyah September 17, 08 03:35 PM

  1. No Yankees series over the 4th of July? How am I supposed to bicker with my Brother in law (he's a Yankees fan) at the family picnic?

    Posted by Rick September 17, 08 03:59 PM

  1. At least they get off September 31!!

    Posted by Tim September 17, 08 04:10 PM

  1. No days off the last two plus weeks of the season? I hope they are far ahead in the division or wildcard.

    Posted by Maura September 17, 08 04:30 PM

  1. 2nd year in a row, I wont be able (or want to) travel to the Cleveland series. Whats with 3 weeknight games in April in Cleveland, then 2 in May at home, and closing out the season with 4 at home against them? Same schedule as this year if I'm not mistaken...

    I would love a weekend summer series there, or AT LEAST a weekend series ANY time.

    Posted by wayne-o September 17, 08 04:47 PM

  1. The 2009 schedule before the 2008 season is even over? Red Sox owners must know their fans are lemmings. I'm sure they will be taking "deposits" on these tix asap

    Posted by kevin September 17, 08 04:50 PM

  1. interleague crap again----I am sick of the NL East!

    Posted by CoachK25 September 17, 08 05:06 PM

  1. The Reg. Season ends Oct. 4th. wow thats late. the Playoffs this year star the 1st of oct.

    Posted by eric September 17, 08 05:19 PM

  1. When do the Red Sox get to play the weak NL teams? Where are our trips to Cincinnatti, San Diego, San Fransisco. How come we always have to play contenders like the Mets and Phillies?

    Posted by Keith September 17, 08 05:30 PM

  1. Pretty lame the first series in the new Yankee Stadium won't be vs. the Sox. Would have been nice to open the place on a losing note for them. The new stadium will mark the begining of a new curse of the Bambino, you think the curse for trading him was bad, wait till you see the one for tearing down his house.

    Posted by Rich September 17, 08 08:18 PM

  1. What happened to playing the National League West division- Last time that was done was the 2004 year-- Dying to see the sox @ Coors-- been too long!! need my sox fix

    Posted by greg swiatkowski September 17, 08 08:49 PM

  1. Sox just played in San Diego last year!

    Posted by Gerry September 17, 08 09:42 PM

  1. Played in San Diego last year and I think I remember a series at Coors less than a year ago.

    Posted by Joe September 17, 08 10:52 PM

  1. Great... we get 18 interleague games but the Sox only play one series each in Detroit and Cleveland, both weekday series. The Tigers and Indians are more traditional rivals, not to mention potential competitors in a wild card race. (And parks I can drive to & get tickets at).)

    How many people other than the bureaucrats in the MLB offices and a few teams with true cross-town rivalries: San Francisco, Chicago, New York, really like this? If we want those teams to play eahoher, devote two weekends to it, &have everyone play their "natural rivals" (Atlanta in Boston's case) & be done with it.

    Posted by ohiodupont September 18, 08 11:26 AM

  1. and the red sox played in cincy just this past june i guess no day off in the last 20 games of the season kinda of makes up for the sox to be through with their west coast swing by may 17th - by the way why do we have to play atlanta twice because they once played in boston?

    Posted by doug September 18, 08 11:52 AM

  1. The tough part of next year's schedule starts this October, when the wild card Sox get blown out by the Angels in the first round and it only gets worse next year when you add the Phillies and Mets!

    Posted by Ron September 18, 08 01:03 PM

  1. played cincinnatti this year...

    Posted by kat September 18, 08 02:14 PM

  1. Wow, the Sox go shafted on this schedule. For the last 45 games of the season they only get 2 days off!

    Posted by TJ September 19, 08 02:27 AM

  1. The Sox come to Minnesota Memorial Day week, and that's it?!? Interleague play STINKS ON ICE

    Posted by Davud Stever September 20, 08 01:12 PM

  1. I mean it's the NL EAST predominately in this interleague crap. It's not compelling, nor does it do a good job of rotating the rest of the national league. Could we just please be done with Selig and his pony show. If there's no equitable interleague scheduling then abolish this terrible sham and go back to AL-NL only. Who really cares about Marlin and National games?

    Posted by SASWANSON December 16, 08 01:09 AM

  1. Each year we play a different division for interleague play, this year just happens to be the NL East. I take it you don't watch baseball much to figure out this trend.

    Posted by Andy December 26, 08 01:56 PM

  1. Bummer, the Sox make ONE trip to Oakland (home) and ONE trip to Cleveland (in-laws), and they are BOTH in April.

    Blasted Inter-league play...!

    Posted by Scott January 5, 09 05:10 PM

  1. Yeah to East Coast livin "L-I-V-I-N LIVEN"; three games in philly, two games at Fenway South, two games in DC and maybe one in Atl, Thats eight sox games for two people for the price of one at Fenway off of stubhub gougers. What a concept.

    Posted by E-Rock W January 7, 09 10:59 PM

  1. what a season!!! back to the ATL. i know one family routing for john smoltz!!!!! go sox... see you june 19!

    Posted by carleen cornwell mccarty January 14, 09 09:52 PM

  1. Well at least the last 20 wont be too difficult...BAL and KC will be sub .500, and TOR and CLE will be near that...the only two contenders in that stretch are LAA and NYY....and at least its a good Home/road balance too-- 9H/10A

    Posted by TC January 19, 09 07:08 PM

  1. i cant believe that the september 26 game is gonna be away... i was gonna go for my birthday ( im gonna turn 13)

    Posted by justsomekid April 23, 09 07:56 AM
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