Milwaukee Brewers analyzing the 2018 schedule Major League Baseball released the schedule for the 2018 season on Tuesday the Milwaukee Brewers found out when they would be playing each and every one of their opponents next season the beginning of the 2018 season will be much different than past seasons as every single team will begin play on Thursday March 29th that's about four days earlier than the season normally begins the change is part of the recent CBA where teams are allowed more off days also the Milwaukee Brewers interleague opponents will be from the AL Central next year there will be games against Cleveland Minnesota Kansas City Detroit and Chicago there will be home games against every one of those teams except the Chicago White Sox you can check out the entire schedule here but let's take a close look at the way the schedule works out for the hometown brew crew march/april in a shocking turn of events the Milwaukee Brewers don't open the season against the Colorado Rockies or the San Francisco Giants the Brewers begin their season in sunny San Diego against the Padres at least it will be warm down there that three-game set begins on Thursday and then they have Sunday off before their home opener against the st. Louis Cardinals that's followed by a four game set against the Chicago Cubs to finish the first homestand of the season then the crew goes on the road to play the Cardinals again followed by a travel day to play the New York Mets another 7-game homestand follows with series against the reds and the Marlins ahead of a nine game road trip to the first interleague series of the season at Kansas City then a trip to Wrigley Field for four games and finally to Cincinnati to finish the month with two series against the Cubs and Cardinals there will be a lot of jostling among the best teams in the division very early May finishing that read series leads the Milwaukee Brewers into the first of four off days in May a five-game homestand begins with three against the Pirates and two against the Cleveland Indians before heading on a 10 game 11 day road trip at West four games against Colorado three against Arizona and three against Minnesota before they returned to Miller Park instead of a four-game home and home series against the twins each team will get a three-game series at home although they aren't back-to-back this year this is due to having to play the twins division this year as opposed to just being a rivalry matchup returning home the Brewers will host Arizona so they finished that season series in a week and a half following that the New York Mets come in for four games and the Cardinals for three to finish the 10 game homestand a long road trip gets followed by a long homestand the Milwaukee Brewers are most likely going to be appreciative of the four off days this month June the tour of the AL Central continues on the south side against the White Sox for three games and then another two in Cleveland that two games said in Cleveland is sandwiched between two off days and the trip finishes in Philadelphia perhaps bullpen catcher Marcus channel can attempt to beat his Philly cheesesteak record of 23 back at Miller Park the i-94 rivalry gets renewed once more before the Phillies come to town for their second straight weekend series against the crew a lot of season series are back-to-back this year a very short road trip starts in Pittsburgh before another six game homestand against the Cardinals in Kansas City following that a trip to Cincinnati to finish the month there is an off day in between most st. Louis and Kansas City series and that's the last off day the Milwaukee Brewers have for a while because July the Brewers get absolutely hosed with the schedule in July honestly this is brutal after two games against Casey and four in Cincinnati the Milwaukee Brewers immediately come home for seven games against Minnesota and Atlanta before going on the road again to Miami and Pittsburgh before the all-star break if you're counting that's 20 games in a row without a day off heading into the all-star break the break is also a week later than it usually is the season starts earlier but the mid-season break is later that makes zero sense also those four days off for the all-star break are the only off days the Brewers have in the month of July they follow that stretch of 20 games in a row with 17 more consecutive games their next scheduled off day is August 6 they come out of a break at home against the Dodgers and Nationals before heading immediately out west to basically finish the NL West for games in San Francisco and four against the Dodgers then they come back home without any off days in between