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The Major League Baseball (MLB) season schedule consists of 162 games for each of the 30 teams in the American League (AL) and National League (NL), played over approximately six months—a total of 2,430 games, plus the postseason. The regular season typically runs from early April to late September, followed by the postseason in October. The season begins with the official Opening Day and runs 26 weeks through the last Sunday of September or first Sunday of October. One or more International Opener games may be scheduled outside the United States and Canada before the official Opening Day. It is possible for a given team to play a maximum of 20 games in the postseason in a given year, provided the team is a wild card and advances to each of the Division Series, Championship Series, and World Series with each series going the distance (5 games in the Division Series, 7 games in the League Championship Series/World Series). The regular season is constructed from series. Due to travel concerns and the sheer number of games, pairs of teams are never scheduled to play single games against each other; instead they play games on several consecutive days in the same ballpark. Most often the series are of three games, but two- and four-game series are also common. In recent seasons teams have occasionally been scheduled to play four-game "split" series, with two games in one team's ballpark, then two games in the other's. A team's road games are usually grouped into a multi-series road trip; home series are grouped into homestands. Until the early 20th century, Sunday games were not played. Since then, each week each team is typically scheduled to play a series over the weekend (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) and a series during the week. Not every team plays every day—Mondays and Thursdays sometimes serve as off-days for particular teams—but there are some games every day, except during the All-Star break. Note that rainouts and other cancellations are often rescheduled in an ad hoc way during the season—sometimes as doubleheaders—and occasionally not made up at all. ==Historical season schedules== This account gives the length of the major league "championship season" schedule by league and year. It does not cover the curtailment of play by war (1918) or by strikes and lockouts (1972, 1981, 1994). The schedules for 1995 were revised and shortened from 162 to 144 games, after late resolution of the strike that had begun in 1994 required a delay in the season to accommodate limited spring training. The listed years are those in which the league revised its schedule. For example, the National League (NL) scheduled 84 games during 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1882 – that is, four seasons from 1879, ending before 1883, the next listing. 1876 is listed here for convenience although the NL did not schedule games (see 1871 to 1876, below). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Major League Baseball schedule」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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