{"id":25922,"date":"2025-11-05T20:28:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25922\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:28:04","slug":"phillies-2026-spring-training-schedule-released-world-baseball-classic-exhibition-among-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25922\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies&#8217; 2026 spring training schedule released, World Baseball Classic exhibition among highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/sports-phillies-end-of-season-orion-kerkering\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phillies&#8217; offseason story<\/a>\u00a0has yet to be written, but fans can now begin planning their trips to Clearwater for spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back NL East champions announced their 2026 spring training schedule, which features a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/aaron-judge-world-baseball-classic-captain-team-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Baseball Classic<\/a>\u00a0exhibition game and the return of the annual St. Patrick&#8217;s Day game, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies fans looking to head for the Florida sunshine in March can begin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/phillies\/tickets\/spring-training\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">buying spring training tickets online<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p>The club hasn&#8217;t announced when pitchers and catchers will report, but it will likely be mid-February. This past spring, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/phillies-spring-training-pitchers-and-catchers-report-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pitchers and catchers reported<\/a> on Feb. 12, 10 days before the club&#8217;s first game.<\/p>\n<p>The Phils open Grapefruit League play on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026, against the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies then host the Pittsburgh Pirates at BayCare Ballpark on Feb. 22 to mark the club&#8217;s 80th spring training in Clearwater.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia will play 15 of its 29 spring training games in Clearwater, including the return of the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day game, which will be against the Minnesota Twins on March 17.<\/p>\n<p>On March 4, the Phils will face Team Canada in a World Baseball Classic exhibition game at BayCare Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies and Blue Jays prospects will face each other in a Spring Breakout game on March 21.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies will end their spring training schedule against the Tampa Bay Rays before opening the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/mlb-2026-schedule-phillies-field-of-dreams-all-star-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 regular season<\/a>\u00a0at home against the Texas Rangers on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast schedule for the 2026 spring training has yet to be released. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies&#8217; offseason story\u00a0has yet to be written, but fans can now begin planning their trips to Clearwater&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4662,28,69,71,70,1425,16959],"class_list":{"0":"post-25922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","14":"tag-spring-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}