MLB set to announce regular-season schedule
Major League Baseball will announce its long-awaited, truncated 2020 schedule at 6 p.m. Monday on the league’s television network.
Teams will play a 60-game schedule, 40 games against division opponents and 20 against the corresponding division from the other league. In the case of the Pirates, that means 40 games against the NL Central and 20 against the AL Central.
The season is scheduled to end by Sept. 27 and be followed by a 10-team playoff.
The St. Louis Dispatch reported last week that the Pirates will open their season Friday, July 24 in St. Louis.
Jonathan Bombulie is the TribLive assistant sports editor. A Greensburg native, he was a hockey reporter for two decades, covering the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins for 17 seasons before joining the Trib in 2015 and covering the Penguins for four seasons, including Stanley Cup championships in 2016-17. He can be reached at jbombulie@triblive.com.
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