Major League Baseball will return to Mexico City in 2026 with a two-game series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres, restoring a key stop on the league\u2019s international slate after a one-year hiatus.<\/p>\n
The National League West rivals will meet April 25-26 at Estadio Alfredo Harp Hel\u00fa, with the Diamondbacks designated as the home team and sacrificing two dates at Chase Field in Phoenix.<\/p>\n
See you in April, Mexico City!<\/p>\n
We\u2019re taking on the Padres in the Mexico City Series at Estadio Alfredo Harp Hel\u00fa. pic.twitter.com\/h8dn9ckAHB<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) December 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Confirmed on Wednesday, the two games are part of MLB\u2019s World Tour and will mark the third regular-season visit to Mexico\u2019s capital,<\/a> following the San Diego Padres\u2013San Francisco Giants series in 2023 and the Houston Astros\u2013Colorado Rockies series in 2024.<\/p>\n Tickets are scheduled to go on sale to the general public Jan. 19 through Ticketmaster, with more information to be posted at MLB.com\/mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n There were no regular-season games in Mexico City in 2025 after MLB dropped plans there and in San Juan, Puerto Rico, when arrangements that made financial and logistical sense could not be finalized.<\/p>\n The cancellations followed a broader reassessment of the World Tour calendar, such as discussions about a potential game in Paris.<\/p>\n Instead, MLB leaned on its 2025 regular-season opening series at the Tokyo Dome, between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs, before circling back to Mexico City for 2026.<\/p>\n As of now, the new Diamondbacks-Padres matchup is MLB\u2019s only regular-season international series for 2026, and it\u2019s being framed as a restart of the Mexico City Series concept rather than a one-off.<\/p>\n For the Padres, the trip is a return to a city where they helped inaugurate regular-season baseball in 2023 with a high-scoring, home-run-heavy series<\/a> against the Giants at the Harp Hel\u00fa stadium, which is 2,239 meters (7,349 feet) above sea level.<\/p>\n In the first of the two games, a wild 16-11 win for the Padres, the teams blasted 11 home runs in a stadium that sits more than 2,100 feet higher than the highest-elevation MLB stadium,\u00a0 Denver\u2019s Coors Field, a reputed \u201claunching pad.\u201d<\/p>\n That weekend also deepened ties with the Padres\u2019 cross-border fan base, with third baseman Manny Machado telling the San Diego Union-Tribune,<\/a> \u201cI think Mexico has been a big part of our culture, our identity in San Diego. \u2026 I wish we had more time [in Mexico City]. It\u2019s special.\u201d<\/p>\n The Diamondbacks and Padres will face off in the Mexico City Series on April 25-26 pic.twitter.com\/I2vV7G93Cr<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Talkin\u2019 Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) December 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n Before now, Mexico has hosted seven MLB regular season series: five in Monterrey and two in Mexico City.\u00a0<\/p>\n Earlier this year, MLB staged two spring training games in Mexico,<\/a> with the Boston Red Sox traveling south to play the Monterrey Sultanes in late March.<\/p>\n A year earlier, the New York Yankees visited Mexico City<\/a> for the first time since 1968 for a two-game exhibition series against the capital-based Diablos Rojos. The home team won both games before two sellout crowds of over 20,600 \u2014 with tickets for both games selling out in less than an hour.<\/p>\n Similarly, there will be another U.S.-Mexico exhibition game coming up in 2026: the San Francisco Giants will host the Sultanes March 23-24<\/a> and unveil a new Gigantes uniform during the series.<\/p>\n With reports from MLB.com<\/a>, Mediotiempo<\/a>, Infobae<\/a> and Arizona Republic<\/a><\/p>\n