NEW YORK (AP) — The major league baseball schedule for 2011 features a midweek start in March, a late September ending and the Chicago Cubs’ first visit to Fenway Park in nearly 100 years.
Five openers are set for Thursday, March 31, although one of them is expected to be moved up to the night of March 30.
The regular season is set to end on Sept. 28. By opening and closing a week earlier this year, the 2011 World Series will finish in October, barring any postponements. Game 7 this year is set for Nov. 4.
The Cubs will play a three-game series in Boston starting on May 20. The Cubs last played at Fenway Park in the 1918 World Series.
Interleague play began in 1997, and the only Cubs-Red Sox series since then was in 2005 at Wrigley Field.
