ESPN To Air Texas Rangers World Series Celebration Ceremony, 2024 Opener Against Cubs
ARLINGTON — The Texas Rangers will open their 2024 season where it finished the 2023 season: Celebrating its first World Series championship on national television.
ESPN will air the Rangers season opener against the Chicago Cubs at 6:30 p.m. March 28 at Globe Life Field.
The evening will include the 2023 World Series championship celebration and ring ceremony before the first pitch, which will be covered by ESPN's Baseball Tonight, which will air live at 5:30 p.m.
It will be ESPN’s 35th season airing Major League Baseball. ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team, including Karl Ravech, analysts David Cone and Eduardo Pérez, and reporter Buster Olney, will start their third season together by calling the game.
The Rangers open the season with a three-game set against the Cubs, including March 30 and March 31, before a three-game series at Tampa Bay April 1-3.
The Rangers return home for a four-game series against their American League West rival Houston Astros from April 5-8.
Single-game tickets are not yet available for purchase but 2024 season-ticket packages, which include the opener, are available at texasrangers.com.
Here's a breakdown of the Rangers' 2024 schedule:
Division Games: 52 total games (26 at home and 26 on the road) against four AL West Division opponents. That will include 13 games each versus Houston, Los Angeles Angels, Oakland and Seattle.
Intraleague Games: 64 total games (32 at home and 32 on the road) against the other 10 AL teams. The Rangers will play seven games each against Baltimore, Chicago White Sox, Detroit, and Minnesota, and six games apiece versus Boston, Cleveland, Kansas City, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay and Toronto.
Interleague Games: 46 total games (23 games at home and 23 on the road) against the 15 National League teams. Texas will meet Arizona four times in a pair of home and home two-game series and the remaining 14 NL clubs three times each. The Rangers will host a three-game series with the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati, New York Mets, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco and Washington, and play three-game road sets at Atlanta, Colorado, Los Angeles Dodgers, Miami, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and St. Louis. It will mark the first time the Rangers have hosted Cincinnati and played at St. Louis since 2016.
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