Padas, Diamondbacks should play regular seasonal series in Mexico City in 2026
In an expected awakening of an event canceled several years ago, Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks are in question with the Major League baseball to play a regular seasonal series in Mexico City in 2026, they said sources in the sector Atletico. The officials of the team and the League refused to comment on Tuesday, saying that the international program of next year is not yet official.
The Padas and Diamondbacks had been destined to meet in a historic series of two games at ActaDodio Alfredo Harp Helú in April 2020. Mlb canceled the series that March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Three years later, in 2023, the Padres and San Francisco Giants played the first games of the regular season of the Major League in Mexico City, with San Diego sweeping a series of two games that was largely greeted as a successful international exhibition. In 2024, the rocky mountains of Houston Astros and Colorado also played a series of two games at the Actifodian Alfredo Harp Helú, which bears the name of Mexican businessman and the owner of Father Alfredo Harp Helú.
A return to the headquarters would mark the sixth series of the regular season of Padres played in a whole or partially outside the United States. (More recently, the Padres have opened the 2024 season with two games against the Los Angeles Dodgers in South Korea, who had never hosted the competition of the major league of the regular season.) The first and last time the diamondbacks played international games they counted, they faced the Dodgers in Sydney, Australia, to start the 2014 season.
Mexico was the most frequent place for the so -called MLB world tour; The Big League teams played a total of five series of the regular season south of the border. The solitary stop of the MLB World Tour this season was the Tokyo Dome in Japan, where the Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs met for the league opening series.
The collective bargaining agreement 2022-26 limits the teams to no more than three national or special national events of the regular season during the CBA period. The Padres and Dodgers each participated in two of these events.
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