For the first time since 2023, the Dodgers will not be the first team to open the Major League Baseball season next year.
Because, for the first time in three seasons, the team isn’t beginning its schedule a week early with an overseas trip.
While some of their players will be traveling the globe in early March, during the 2026 World Baseball Classic, the Dodgers will have a relatively normal travel schedule as a team next season — unlike the last two years when they opened in Tokyo and Seoul.