The New York Yankees will get their chance to boo the Houston Astros for three games starting on May 4, 2021. Today the Yankees released their 2021 baseball schedule. The Astro series at the Stadium will be part of their longest homestand in a season that the Yankees will host the Toronto Blue Jays on Opening Day in New York.
Notes from the season: The New York Yankees will return to a regular 162 game season that again will see them travel the country in the traditional league divisions. They will travel to the west coast only twice, once for three games with the Seattle Mariners on the sixth of July and again for their longest west coast trip in August with four games against the Oakland A’s and three with the Los Angeles Angels.
Although their west coast visits will be at a minimum, playing National League teams will be common. The New York Yankees will face the Philadelphia Phillies, the Washington Nationals, the Atlanta Braves, the Miami Marlins for the second year in a row. They will also meet their crosstown rival New York Mets for six Subway Series games, three at Yankee Stadium on the July 4th holiday. The other three will be in the Queens at Citi Field from September 10-12. September 11 will be the 20th anniversary of the New York attack on the World Trade Buildings and will feature an on the field remembrance.
During the full season, the Yankees will be playing on all the summer holidays. They will play at home on Easter Sunday (4/4 vs. Toronto), Mother’s Day (5/9 vs. Washington), Memorial Day (5/31 vs. Tampa Bay), Father’s Day (6/20 vs. Oakland), Independence Day (7/4 vs. the Mets) and Labor Day (9/6 vs. Toronto). The Yankees will close out the regular season at home with a three-game series vs. Tampa Bay from 10/1-3.
Although it’s nice to know that the Yankees will finally get to show their distaste for the Houston Astros, that is on the back burner. Right now their only concern is winning a 28th World Championship. They will start that campaign two weeks from now in our nation’s capital when Gerrit Cole faces the Washington National’s, Max Scherzer.
For a full look at the schedule click here.
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