Texas Rangers will open 2016 season at home on April 4
The Texas Rangers will open the 2016 season at home in Globe Life Park against the Seattle Mariners on Monday, April 4.
Major League Baseball released its 2016 schedule on Tuesday.
The Rangers will have a home opener in 2016 for the 25th time in 45 seasons and sixth time in the past eight years.
With 15 teams in each league, interleague play will take place throughout the entire regular season for the fourth straight year. Clubs will again play 19 games against division opponents (76 total games) and either six or seven contests vs. non-divisional league opponents in home and home series (66 total games). Each club will also play 20 interleague games (10 home/10 road), with the Rangers facing Colorado and the five National League Central clubs in 2016.
Texas will play 19 times each versus A.L. West Division foes Houston, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Seattle. In interleague play, the Rangers will have two-game home and home series with the Cincinnati Reds and Colorado Rockies. Texas rounds out its interleague schedule by hosting the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates for three games each and traveling to the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals for three-game series.
Game times for the 2016 schedule will be announced at a later date.
Texas Rangers 2016 Schedule
April 4-6: vs. Seattle
April 7-10: at Los Angeles Angels
April 11-13: at Seattle
April 14-17: vs. Baltimore
April 19-21: vs. Houston
April 22-24: at Chicago White Sox
April 25-27: vs. New York Yankees
April 29-May 1: vs. Los Angeles Angels
May 2-5: at Toronto
May 6-8: at Detroit
May 9-11: vs. Chicago White Sox
May 13-15: vs. Toronto
May 16-18: at Oakland
May 20-22: at Houston
May 23-25: vs. Los Angeles Angels
May 27-29: vs. Pittsburgh
May 30-June 1: at Cleveland
June 3-5: vs. Seattle
June 6-9: vs. Houston
June 10-12: at Seattle
June 13-16: at Oakland
June 17-19: at St. Louis
June 21-22: vs. Cincinnati
June 24-26: vs. Boston
June 27-30: at New York Yankees
July 1-3: at Minnesota
July 4-6: at Boston
July 7-10: vs. Minnesota
July 12: All-Star Game
July 15-17: at Chicago
July 18-20: Los Angeles Angels
July 22-24: at Kansas City
July 25-27: vs. Oakland
July 28-31: vs. Kansas City
August 2-4: at Baltimore
August 5-7: at Houston
August 8-9: at Colorado
August 10-11: vs. Colorado
August 12-14: vs. Detroit
August 15-17: vs. Oakland
August 19-21: at Tampa Bay
August 23-24: at Cincinnati
August 25-28: vs. Cleveland
August 29-31: vs. Seattle
Sept. 2-4: vs. Houston
Sept. 5-8: at Seattle
Sept. 9-11: at Los Angeles Angels
Sept. 12-14: at Houston
Sept. 16-19: Oakland
Sept. 19-21: at Los Angeles Angels
Sept. 23-25: at Oakland
Sept. 26-28: vs. Milwaukee
Sept. 30-Oct. 2: vs. Tampa Bay
This story was originally published September 8, 2015 at 1:57 PM with the headline "Texas Rangers will open 2016 season at home on April 4."