Diamondbacks and Padres to play MLB regular season games on April 25 and 26 in Mexico City

The Alfredo Harp Helú Stadium in Mexico City, the home of the 2026 Baseball Champions League, will host Major League Baseball (MLB) games on Saturday, April 25, at 16:00 (local time) and Sunday, April 26, at 14:00 (local time) when the Arizona Diamondbacks take on the San Diego Padres. Arizona will be the home team.

The series will be the latest instalment of MLB’s World Tour and will mark the third regular season visit by MLB to Mexico’s capital city, following the 2023 series between the Padres and San Francisco Giants, and the 2024 set between the Houston Astros and the Colorado Rockies.

Monterrey hosted the first MLB regular season games played outside the continental United States and Canada in 1996 on August 16, 17 and 18 when the San Diego Padres faced the New York Mets. The city hosted the 1999 Opening Day between the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres and regular season games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres on May 4, 5, and 6, 2018 and between the Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals on April 13 and 14, 2019, and between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 4 and 5, 2019.

MLB's World Tour has brought regular season games also to Asia, Oceania and Europe. Japan (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2019, and 2025), Australia (2014), Korea (2024) and the United Kingdom (2019, 2023 and 2024) hosted MLB regular season series. Outside the continental USA and Canada, the World Tour also reached Puerto Rico in 2001, 2010 and 2018.