On Monday, the Brewers released their schedule for the 2026 regular season. A few notable games are below, but before we get to that, there’s a new twist in game times: all of Milwaukee’s weekday home games will now start at 6:40 p.m. In 2025, Friday games started at 7:10 p.m., while games on Monday through Thursday started at 6:40 p.m. Saturday night games will start at 6:10 p.m., while Saturday afternoon games will start at 3:10 p.m. (with one exception on August 22). All Sunday home games will start at 1:10 p.m., except the final day of the season, when every game across the league starts at 2:10 p.m. CT.
Opening Day, Thursday, March 26 vs. Chicago White Sox
After the season officially starts on Wednesday, March 25 with a nighttime matchup between the Yankees and Giants, the Brewers kick their season off with the rest of the league on Thursday, March 26. After a rough start in 2025, when Milwaukee was swept in three games at Yankee Stadium, they should have a better time of it this year with a three-game home set against the White Sox. As has been the norm over the last few years, the Brewers will be off on Friday after Opening Day and will finish the series on Saturday and Sunday.
April 14-16 vs. Toronto Blue Jays
The first major series of the season comes two weeks into the season when the American League champs come to town for a three-game midweek set.
The Brewers’ National League Central schedule begins in late April when Pittsburgh comes to town, but they don’t play their biggest rivals until the third week of May. Recall that last season, the Brewers didn’t start to turn their season around until about this point in the schedule, so while it’s almost two months into the season, there’s still a lot we may not know.
May 22-24 vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
This is a big week for the Brewers, as after their three games in Chicago, they come back home to host the reigning champs and the team that embarrassed them in the National League Championship Series, the Dodgers. Of course, if there’s anything we learned from the 2025 season, it’s that you can’t really trust regular-season results against the Dodgers.
June 8-10 @ Las Vegas (?) Athletics
One curiosity on the Brewers’ schedule (that we’ve known about for a while) is that they’re going to play the Athletics not in Sacramento but in Las Vegas, at the park where the Triple-A Aviators (The Athletics’ affiliate) play. For those of you hardy enough to brave an outdoor game in June in Las Vegas, it could make for a fun trip. Personally, I’ll pass. (These will, at least, all be night games.)
August 31-September 3 and September 7-9 against the Chicago Cubs
The Brewers play their first home series against the Cubs at the end of June, but the last two series between these two teams — the first a four-gamer at Wrigley Field and the second a three-game set at American Family Field — come in quick succession, close to the end of the season. Of course, we have no idea how the season will play out, but if we think that the Brewers and Cubs could again be battling for NL Central supremacy, then these will be two huge series.
The Brewers and Cubs play an odd number of times this season, so Chicago gets a small advantage with seven home games versus six for the Brewers.
September 25-27 vs. St. Louis Cardinals
The Brewers’ last series of the year comes at home versus a division rival, albeit one that may not be challenging for the division at the end of the season. As has been the case, all 15 games will start at the same time on September 27, the last day of the regular season.
