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The Blue Jays schedule is out for 2017.




The Jays will open the season on the road and close it on the road again as the MLB schedule makers stick it to the team once again. I don't know why it's so hard to do a schedule properly. If you begin the year on the road, you should get to end it at home and vice versa. Anyways, the Jays are in Baltimore Monday, April 3 for a two-game series and end the year in the Bronx Zoo with a three game set against the New York Yankees that ends Sunday, October 1.

The home opener is set for Tuesday, April 11 against the Milwaukee Brewers who are in town for a two-game series. The Jays will play the St. Louis Cardinals April 25-27 in Missouri.

Other dates of note include two-game back-to-back series against Atlanta May 15-16 in Toronto and May 17-18 in Georgia. It looks like the Braves are now the "National League" rival instead of the Phillies. The Jays pay a visit to Milwaukee May 23-24. Joey Votto and the Cincinnati Reds are scheduled to be at the Dome May 29-31.

Good news for Jays fans out West. The team will be in Seattle for the weekend of June 9-11. Meanwhile, the Canada Day game is a Saturday matchup against Boston, the middle game of a three-game set.

The Pittsburgh Pirates will be in Toronto for the weekend of August 11-13 before the Jays play the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field the following weekend, August 18-20.

The final home series for the Jays takes place September 22-24 against the Yankees. The year ends with three games in Boston and three in New York.

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James W - Wednesday, September 14 2016 @ 01:40 PM EDT (#331416) #
Why should a team not start/end a season on the road? (Or at home?) I don't think this is important enough to worry about, so I'm curious to hear why you think so. It would make sense that the Jays open at home every year, since they're guaranteed to not have weather problems.

About the "National League rival", Boston/Toronto rotate that with Atlanta/Philadelphia, since the other 3 East Division teams have a natural opponent. Atlanta is the rival in 2017, but that is not locked in forever.
#2JBrumfield - Wednesday, September 14 2016 @ 03:23 PM EDT (#331442) #
I don't think this is important enough to worry about, so I'm curious to hear why you think so.

Balance, fairness. Simple as that.

As for the Phillies, the Jays have played them in every year since 2006 save for 2013 so if that doesn't constitute a National League rival, I don't know what does.
85bluejay - Wednesday, September 14 2016 @ 04:44 PM EDT (#331462) #
When the Jays decided to increase prices for 2017, I don't think they envisioned missing the 2016 playoffs.
ayjackson - Thursday, September 15 2016 @ 07:33 AM EDT (#331497) #
The LAA trip mid-April might coincide with a NHL playoff series between LA and Anaheim and a western Canadian team.
Thomas - Thursday, September 15 2016 @ 08:28 AM EDT (#331502) #
The Jays play three road series in Boston. All are mid-week (Monday to Wednesday/Thursday). One is in July and two are in September. That's a little strange.
snider - Thursday, September 15 2016 @ 11:26 AM EDT (#331511) #
They totally changed the flex packs. You have to buy 20 games to have freedom to pick your games. They are forcing the smaller packs to pick some weekdays games. As a current flex pack holder for 10 games I think I won't be renewing.

If the Jays miss the playoffs, this could be a big miscalculation by the front office.
Gerry - Thursday, September 15 2016 @ 12:29 PM EDT (#331516) #
I am a flex pack holder too and I wont be renewing. I sometimes need two tickets, sometimes four and sometimes six. The flex pack worked for that but none of the new packages do.
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