Texas Rangers announce starting times for 2024 home games at Globe Life Field
Arlington, Texas—The Texas Rangers today announced the starting times for 2024 home games at Globe Life Field. The 2024 regular season schedule has been previously announced by Major League Baseball in July.
There will be a change in the starting time for weekday home games in 2024 as first pitch for two Wednesday and six Thursday matinees will be at 1:35 p.m., instead of 1:05 p.m. That adjustment was made to be consistent with the 13 Sunday start times of 1:35 p.m. The only exception will be on opening day, Thursday, March 28, when the Rangers-Cubs matchup will begin at 3:05 p.m.
All other Monday through Friday games will again be 7:05 p.m. starts.
Texas will play four Saturday home games with 3:05 p.m. starts, April 27 vs. Cincinnati, June 4 vs. San Francisco, June 22 vs. Kansas City, and July 6 vs. Tampa Bay. All other Saturday contests at Globe Life Field are scheduled to begin at 6:05 p.m.
Overall, the Rangers are scheduled to play 26 day games and 55 night contests on the 2024 home schedule. Game times are subject to change pending the addition of national television broadcasts during the off-season.
In 2023 Major League Baseball introduced a balanced schedule for all 30 clubs for the first time since interleague play was introduced in 1997. As previously announced, the Rangers’ 2024 schedule will feature the following:
Division Games: 52 total games (26 at home and 26 on the road) against four A.L. 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 ten American League 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 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.
Road game times for the 2024 schedule will be announced at a later date.