Breaking down the 2025 Dodgers schedule for value

The 2024 season is over and the Dodgers are champions. Neat. Time for me to turn the page!

Schedule-release videos are quite common and popular in other leagues, like the National Football League. The San Diego Los Angeles Chargers made their annual videos into an event, which is a bit ironic considering how mediocre the team is.

This concept has been slow to catch on in baseball, and all the Dodgers produced was a static image tweet this past summer.

The release of the 2025 schedule was reportedly delayed because of concerns stemming from the ongoing fiasco surrounding the upcoming Sacramento Athletics. [Author’s Note: Even though the team insists that it is just called “the Athletics,” due to the sanity and fondness of the host city, I will not ignore the city of Sacramento.] Like the Mervyn’s lady of old, I waited with baited breath for the coming schedule.

Throughout the year, I am constantly asked how I am to travel as often as I do. It is quite simple: careful, judicious planning is how I can travel and provide field coverage for select road games for True Blue LA. If you plan things out once the schedule drops, you have the most flexibility to figure out where you want to go.

The schedule for the 2025 season dropped during the All-Star Break. After review, including two technical away games in Japan, we break down the 2025 road schedule for value.

Some of you do not like traveling and prefer to go to Dodger Stadium. I understand and salute you, as Dodger Stadium needs its regular denizens.

The players and the team would agree with the following argument: Dodger road fans are the best road fans in baseball. Pick an away game, any away game, and you will find a vocal contingent of the Dodger faithful — we show up.

For a home game, you will have 80 options next year. To help break down the 82 away games next year (as of now, both Japan Series games are away games), this essay will cover each scheduled road trip, provide comments, and link to any relevant Guide entries, if applicable.

I start planning for away travel the day the schedule drops and finalize things like flights, tickets, and hotels six months before the games. I also create price alerts to ensure that I do not miss a good deal.

Dodgers’ 2025 road schedule

The Dodgers will not visit Sacramento (thank God — What? It’s likely going to be really hot), Houston, the Southside of Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, the Bronx, and Minneapolis in 2025, as those teams will instead visit Dodger Stadium. If you did not go to these locations in 2024, you must wait until 2026.

March 18-19 — Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Series with the Chicago Cubs: I have long wanted to go to Japan. I would encourage anyone who would start traveling internationally but did not want to go to Europe or the Americas to start in Tokyo. When I first traveled the world in 2016, I probably would have experienced less culture shock had I spent a few days in Tokyo before heading to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Let me put it plainly how big a deal the announcement was, as opposed to the Korea Series: my mother called me and asked if I knew of the announcement and asked, “When are we going to Japan?”

April 4-9 — 3 at Philadelphia Phillies, 3 at Washington Nationals: Going to Philly to start the domestic part of the year is bold, and I like it. Hopefully, the weather cooperates, but the fact that this series is paired with another Eastern Time Zone city is a good way to start the year before the humidity and heat become problematic.

• The Guide for Philadelphia has yet to be developed as I have not been there yet.
• The Guide for Washington, D.C., is right here.

April 18-April 23: 3 at Texas Rangers, 2 at Cubs: Domestic game coverage will likely start this weekend as Arlington is one of the four remaining stadiums I have yet to visit.

Oddly, this weekend series leads to an off day before a two-game jaunt at Wrigley, followed by another off day. That said, the Dodgers do not play baseball on Thursdays in April, which should provide some relief with another international opening day. If you dislike the Cubs, all games in 2025 with them will be completed within the first 30 days of the season.

• The Guide for Arlington has yet to be developed as I have not been there yet.
• The Guide for Chicago (NL) is right here.

Michael Elizondo / True Blue LA

May 2-11 — 3 at Atlanta Braves, 3 at Miami Marlins, 4 at Arizona Diamondbacks: This road trip will likely be the most grueling road trip of the year with 13 consecutive games, including ten in a row on the road.

At least going from Atlanta to Miami by air is relatively painless. Where the road trip goes from livable to nightmarish is the baffling decision to then go immediately to Phoenix for four games. Had this series been switched with another east or midwest stop, I could see the logic behind it.

As is, this portion of the schedule will likely be the hardest logistically, and I would salute any fan who follows the team for all three stops before returning to Los Angeles.

• The Guide for Atlanta is here.
• The Guide for Miami is under development, but here is a firsthand account from 2024.
• The Guide for Phoenix is here.

May 23-28 (Memorial Day Weekend) — 3 at New York Mets, 3 at Cleveland Guardians: Once again, the Dodgers are on the road for Memorial Day Weekend. If you have a sense of deja vu right now, I would not blame you.

In 2024, the Dodgers played the Mets over the weekend before heading to Cincinnati. In 2025, over the same equivalent period, the Dodgers play the Mets over the weekend...before heading to the other part of Ohio to play the Guardians in Cleveland.

Queens is fine (albeit you feel like a Lego while you are there), and Cleveland is the second-best stadium in the AL Central, so any fan going on this road trip should have a decent time.

• The Guide for New York (NL) is right here.
• The Guide for Cleveland is being worked on. (Spoilers: pretty good provided that you stay in the right hotel.)

Michael Elizondo / True Blue LA

June 6-11 — 3 at St. Louis Cardinals, 3 at San Diego Padres: Again — more deja vu.

Another June, another weird trip to the Midwest, followed a return trip to face an NL West foe (in 2024, it was the Chicago White Sox with a weird off-day pattern, then three games in against the San Francisco Giants).

At least the off-day pattern is not oddly set this time. Gripes aside, St. Louis and San Diego are excellent baseball cities, and one can find excellent value by spending a couple of days in St. Louis before heading to Petco Park, the best ballpark in the NL West.

• The Guide for St. Louis is here.
• The Guide for San Diego is here.

June 24-29 — 3 at Colorado Rockies, 3 at Kansas City Royals: Truthfully, going to Denver is a pain because unless you do a solo series, getting anywhere else from Denver baseball-wise is a hassle. Seriously, go look at a map and see the island of baseball that is Denver.

That said, Denver and Kansas City are fairly chill baseball destinations. In a perfect world, I could envision spending a week on the road going from craft beer to craft beer before going ham on barbeque and the Negro League Baseball Museum.

• The Guide for Denver is here.
• The Guide for Kansas City is here.

July 7-13 — 3 at Milwaukee Brewers, 3 at San Francisco Giants (end of the first half): The balanced schedule creates weird road trips like this one to conclude the first half of the 2025 season. Milwaukee is fine, especially with an off day afterward — just be wary of ghosts or Bernie’s Slide.

Oddly, this trip will be the Dodgers' first visit to San Francisco in 2025. Granted, at least the historic rivalry is more spread out over the season, whereas in 2024, it was basically done around the All-Star Break.

If you have never done a baseball road trip, this pair of series is a good place to start considering the ease of getting to Milwaukee (you can fly directly or fly to Chicago and drive) and then turn around and visit the home of the Giants.

• The Guide for San Francisco is here.
• The Guide for Milwaukee is here.

July 25-August 3 — 3 at Boston Red Sox, 3 at Cincinnati Reds, 3 at Tampa Bay Rays:

Woof.

This road trip is easily going to be the most costly for the traveling Dodger fan due to flight, hotel, and physical costs to one’s well-being. The team will likely not fare much better, as this road trip is a stretch of 12 games in 14 days, as the Dodgers play three against the Cardinals at home after the series with the Rays concludes.

Going to Boston is an expensive, if fun, proposition. It's more deja vu here, as in 2023, the Dodgers first went to Cleveland and then to Boston. Not so here, as the Dodgers go from Boston to Cincinnati in the summer, so huzzah for humidity before playing in the shabby confines of St. Petersburg.

This road trip is probably the first road trip during my tenure in which my literal first reaction was, “I am getting too old for this ... stuff.” Only the most hardcore Dodger fans with disposable income for days should attempt to follow the team for the entirety of this trip.

Otherwise, if they want to be efficient with this road trip, I would just spend a few extra days in Boston before going to Tampa. At least, that thought was my original thought before the last hurricane season. Then, Hurricane Milton happened, destroying the roof of Tropicana Field and relegating the Rays to the New York Yankees spring training facility, George M. Steinbrenner Field.

The Trop was shabby in many ways, but it had working air conditioning and was comfortable to a degree. Without a roof in a tropical climate, 2025 will likely be a logistical nightmare for Rays fans as most of the first 60 games will be at “home,” and most of the latter two-thirds of the season will be on the road.

• The Guide for Boston is being worked on. (Spoilers: historic and expensive.)
• The Guide for Cincinnati is here.
• The Guide for Tampa is being worked on. (Spoilers: shabby and so Florida.)

Michael Elizondo / True Blue LA

August 11-13 — 3 at Anaheim Angels: I still have major issues with the Big A. I am not a fan of the “rivalry” interleague series being extended by two games because was anyone apart from Arte Moreno crying out for more games between the Angels and Dodgers?

It is what it is. If you do not want to venture out of Southern California and you do not want to head to San Diego to see the Dodgers, I would still pick going to Phoenix instead.

• The Guide for Anaheim is here.

August 18-24 — 4 at Rockies, 3 at Padres: An actual NL West road trip, the first of two all year. The balanced schedule made NL West-only road trips much rarer. Going from Denver to San Diego in a week is not the worst way to spend a week.

September 2-September 7 — 3 at Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 at Baltimore Orioles: Jackpot! Hands down, this trip is the road trip of the year. You name a potential cost, logistics, and distance issue, and these two series have you covered.

Let me put it simply: if I could only follow the Dodgers on one road trip in 2025, Pittsburgh to Baltimore would be the snap decision, even more so than going to Japan. These cities are just that good to watch the Dodgers in.

• The Guide for Pittsburgh is here.
• The Guide for Baltimore is being worked on. (Spoilers: it’s really good.)

Michael Elizondo / True Blue LA

September 12-14 — 3 at Giants: September baseball in San Francisco. ‘Nuff said. The Dodgers and Giants play each other seven times in September 2025.

September 23-28 — 3 at Diamondbacks, 3 at Seattle Mariners (end of regular season): What an odd conclusion to the regular season. I have no issue with the series in Phoenix, as divisional games in September should be encouraged.

To conclude the regular season in Seattle is just bizarre. T-Mobile Park is not bad by any means, but like Denver, Seattle has no immediate baseball neighbors. As such, going to Seattle will always be an odd jaunt, but considering how this destination will be the regular season finale, there are worse places to be if one happens to be on the road.

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Overall, I see the possibility of where I would like to travel, but it is far too early to start booking anything. But if I were inclined to go to Japan, I would start prepping and saving now. I would also try to square away any potential passport issues now, as those issues are never resolved speedily.

Which 2025 series are you looking forward to? Be sure to point it out in the comments.