List of Major League Baseball games played outside the United States and Canada

To date, major-league regular-season games have been contested in five countries outside of the United States and Canada: Australia (Sydney), Japan (Tokyo), Mexico (Mexico City and Monterrey), South Korea (Seoul), and the United Kingdom (London). In 2008, a series of two spring training games was played in Beijing, China.

The first MLB World Tour games (as they are now known) were contested in Mexico in 1996 and 1999. From 2000 through 2012, eight such games were contested, all in Japan. Two games were played in Australia in 2014, followed by three games in Mexico in 2018. The 2019 season saw a total of eight games played in Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Following a three-year pause, Mexico and the United Kingdom each hosted a two-game series in 2023. In 2024, MLB teams played two-game series in Seoul, Mexico City, and London.

Exhibition contests, such as preseason games or postseason all-star games, are not included in the list below. Several such contests can be found in the See also section.

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Season	Date	Designated visitor	Score	Designated home team	Attendance	Stadium	City	Country	Ref.
1996	August 16	New York Mets	10–15	San Diego Padres	23,699	Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey	Monterrey	Mexico	[3]
	August 17	New York Mets	7–3	San Diego Padres	20,873				[4]
	August 18	New York Mets	0–9	San Diego Padres	22,810				[5]
1999	April 4	Colorado Rockies	8–2	San Diego Padres	27,104				[6]
2000	March 29	Chicago Cubs	5–3	New York Mets	55,000	Tokyo Dome	Tokyo	Japan	[7]
	March 30	New York Mets	5–1	Chicago Cubs	55,000				[8]
2004	March 30	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	8–3	New York Yankees	55,000				[9]
	March 31	New York Yankees	12–1	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	55,000				[10]
2008	March 25	Boston Red Sox	6–5	Oakland Athletics	44,628				[11]
	March 26	Boston Red Sox	1–5	Oakland Athletics	44,735				[12]
2012	March 28	Seattle Mariners	3–1	Oakland Athletics	44,227				[13]
	March 29	Seattle Mariners	1–4	Oakland Athletics	43,391				[14]
2014	March 22	Los Angeles Dodgers	3–1	Arizona Diamondbacks	38,266	Sydney Cricket Ground	Sydney	Australia	[15]
	March 23	Los Angeles Dodgers	7–5	Arizona Diamondbacks	38,079				[16]
2018	May 4	Los Angeles Dodgers	4–0	San Diego Padres	21,536	Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey	Monterrey	Mexico	[17]
	May 5	Los Angeles Dodgers	4–7	San Diego Padres	21,791				[18]
	May 6	Los Angeles Dodgers	0–3	San Diego Padres	21,789				[19]
2019	March 20	Seattle Mariners	9–7	Oakland Athletics	45,787	Tokyo Dome	Tokyo	Japan	[20]
	March 21	Seattle Mariners	5–4 (12)	Oakland Athletics	46,451				[21]
	April 13	St. Louis Cardinals	2–5	Cincinnati Reds	16,496	Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey	Monterrey	Mexico	[22]
	April 14	St. Louis Cardinals	9–5	Cincinnati Reds	16,793				[23]
	May 4	Houston Astros	14–2	Los Angeles Angels	18,177				[24]
	May 5	Houston Astros	10–4	Los Angeles Angels	17,614				[25]
	June 29	New York Yankees	17–13	Boston Red Sox	59,659	London Stadium	London	United Kingdom	[26]
	June 30	New York Yankees	12–8	Boston Red Sox	59,059				[27]
2023	April 29	San Francisco Giants	11–16	San Diego Padres	19,611	Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú	Mexico City	Mexico	[28]
	April 30	San Francisco Giants	4–6	San Diego Padres	19,633				[29]
	June 24	Chicago Cubs	9–1	St. Louis Cardinals	54,662	London Stadium	London	United Kingdom	[30]
	June 25	Chicago Cubs	5–7	St. Louis Cardinals	55,565				[31]
2024	March 20	Los Angeles Dodgers	5–2	San Diego Padres	15,952	Gocheok Sky Dome	Seoul	South Korea	[32]
	March 21	San Diego Padres	15–11	Los Angeles Dodgers	15,928				[33]
	April 27	Houston Astros	12–4	Colorado Rockies	19,934	Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú	Mexico City	Mexico	[34]
	April 28	Houston Astros	8–2	Colorado Rockies	19,841				[35]
	June 8	Philadelphia Phillies	7–2	New York Mets	53,882	London Stadium	London	United Kingdom	[36]
	June 9	New York Mets	6–5	Philadelphia Phillies	55,074				[37]
2025	March 18	Los Angeles Dodgers	4–1	Chicago Cubs	42,365	Tokyo Dome	Tokyo	Japan	[38]
	March 19	Los Angeles Dodgers	6–3	Chicago Cubs	42,367				[39]
2026	April 25	Arizona Diamondbacks	–	San Diego Padres		Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú	Mexico City	Mexico
	April 26	Arizona Diamondbacks	–	San Diego Padres

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Notes

• The March 2008 games were known as the MLB Japan Opening Series 2008.
• The Tokyo contest of March 21, 2019, was the last professional game for Ichiro Suzuki, who announced his retirement immediately afterwards.^[40]
• The June 2019 games were known as the 2019 MLB London Series.
• The March 2025 games are known as the MLB Tokyo Series 2025.
• There has been one no-hitter: May 4, 2018 (detail).
• There has been one extra innings game: March 21, 2019 (12 innings).

Canceled games

In May 2019, MLB announced that the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals would play a two-game series in London in June 2020, to be known as the 2020 MLB London Series. Additionally, in December 2019, the league announced that the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres would play a two-game series in Mexico City in April 2020. These would have been the first regular-season MLB games in Mexico City.^[41] Both of these series were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[42][43]

MLB had planned to host games at the Stade de France, just outside Paris, starting in 2025. MLB canceled its 2025 Paris series due to being unable to find a promoter for the event^[44] and because of scheduling issues that made it impractical to build a field to MLB's standards at the stadium.^[45] Plans to hold games during the 2025 season in Mexico City, Mexico, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, which were part of the 2022 collective bargaining agreement, were abandoned in November 2024.^[46] MLB cancelled its 2026 London series between the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees on June 13 and 14 due to scheduling issues with West Ham Stadium and Fox's previous 2026 FIFA World Cup broadcast commitments.^[47]

Estadio Hiram Bithorn in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has hosted 49 MLB games since 2001.^[1] As Puerto Rico is a United States commonwealth, these games are not included in the above table.

The Montreal Expos played 43 "home" games at Estadio Hiram Bithorn during 2003 and 2004.^[48]

Excluding Expos games, below is a list of neutral-site games played in Puerto Rico:

In August 2019, MLB announced a three-game series between the New York Mets and Miami Marlins at Estadio Hiram Bithorn to be played in April 2020.^[55] This series was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[42]

As part of the collective bargaining agreement to end the 2021–22 Major League Baseball lockout, MLB announced a plan to have additional games played internationally, including regular-season games in Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, London, and Paris between 2023 and 2026.^[56] Beginning with the 2023 season, games outside the U.S. and Canada are branded as "MLB World Tour".^[2]

The MLB Mexico City Series was first contested in 2023 at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú. The San Diego Padres won both games against the San Francisco Giants.^[57]

In 2024, the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays played two games during spring training on March 9–10 at Estadio Quisqueya in Santo Domingo;^[58] the Red Sox won both games.^[59][60] The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres opened the regular season at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, with each team winning one game. The MLB Seoul Series included the first regular season games to be played in Korea.^[61][62] Also during 2024, the Houston Astros won both games against the Colorado Rockies played at Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú in Mexico City on April 27–28, and the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies played two games at London Stadium as part of the MLB London Series on June 8–9, with each team winning one game.^[63][64]

On July 18, 2024, MLB announced that the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs would open the 2025 season at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo with a two-game series on March 18 and 19.^[65] The Cubs and Dodgers each played two exhibition games in Tokyo against Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) teams prior to the series.^[66]

On March 24–25, 2025, the Red Sox concluded their spring training with two games in Monterrey, Mexico, against the Monterrey Sultanes.^[67]

• American Series, major-league and Negro league exhibition games played in Cuba before the 1960 Cuban Revolution
• 1999 Baltimore Orioles–Cuba national baseball team exhibition series, which included a March 1999 exhibition game played in Cuba
• MLB Home Run Derby X, an exhibition tour held since 2022, including appearances in London, Seoul, and Mexico City
• MLB Japan All-Star Series, postseason all-star contests held periodically since 1986
• MLB Taiwan All-Star Series, postseason all-star contests held in 2011
• List of neutral site regular season Major League Baseball games played in the United States and Canada
• List of National Football League games played outside the United States
• List of college football games played outside the United States