How to Add the MLB Schedule to Your Calendar (Google, Apple, Outlook)

Where to get the feed

Use MLB.com's "Sync Schedule" (official, free)

This is the best-maintained sports feed of all the leagues on this site:

1. Open your team's schedule page: mlb.com/[team]/schedule — for example mlb.com/yankees/schedule.
2. Click "Sync Schedule" (top right of the schedule; on mobile it hides behind the ⋯ menu).
3. Pick Google Calendar for a one-click subscription, or iCal / Outlook to get a webcal:// link you paste into Apple Calendar or Outlook (steps below).
4. Choose subscribe, not download. The downloadable .ics is a snapshot that never updates.

The feed includes spring training, the regular season and, once they are scheduled, postseason games. Rain-outs and rescheduled doubleheaders update within hours.

Alternatives

The MLB app has the same sync under each team's schedule tab. ESPN team pages (espn.com/mlb/team/schedule/_/name/[abbr]) also provide an iCal link.

Add it to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook

Once you have the schedule link (it usually starts with webcal:// or ends in .ics; a league's "sync" button hands it to your app for you), the steps are the same for every sport:

Google Calendar

1. Open calendar.google.com on a desktop browser (the mobile app can't add subscriptions).
2. In the left sidebar, next to Other calendars, click + → From URL.
3. Paste the link, then click Add calendar. It appears under Other calendars and syncs to your phone automatically.
4. Optional: click the three dots next to the calendar to give it a color, or untick it when you need a quiet week.

Apple Calendar (iPhone, iPad, Mac)

1. iPhone / iPad: Settings → Apps → Calendar → Calendar Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar, paste the link, tap Next, then Save.
2. Mac: in Calendar choose File → New Calendar Subscription, paste the link, click Subscribe. Set Auto-refresh to Every day (or Every hour during the playoffs) and tick iCloud so it reaches all your devices.

Outlook

1. Outlook on the web / new Outlook: Calendar → Add calendar → Subscribe from web, paste the link, name it, click Import.
2. Classic Outlook desktop: File → Account Settings → Internet Calendars → New, paste the link. If game times look a few hours off, the desktop app ignored the feed's time zone; the web version doesn't have this problem.

Key dates

Season structure

The MLB regular season is the longest in major US sports: 162 games per team over about 26 weeks, played almost daily in three-game and four-game series. A team schedule is roughly 27 home stands and road trips, which is far too much to maintain by hand — subscribe once and let the feed do the work.

Twelve teams reach the postseason (six per league). The top two seeds in each league skip the best-of-three Wild Card Series and go straight to the Division Series. Everything after that is best-of-five or best-of-seven, ending with the World Series in late October.

First-pitch windows to expect

• Weeknights — 6:40 to 7:10 PM local time (7:05 and 7:10 PM are the most common)
• Day games — 1:05 to 1:10 PM local, typically the last game of a series ("getaway day") and Sunday afternoons; Wrigley Field and a few others play more day games
• Saturday nights — often 4:05 or 7:15 PM for national TV
• Doubleheaders — split doubleheaders (1:05 PM and 7:05 PM) usually appear in the feed as two separate events; straight doubleheaders as one event with a note
• Postseason — national TV picks the times a day or two ahead; the feed updates accordingly

Spring training and split-squad games

Spring training games (late February to late March) are in the feed, including split-squad days when a team plays two games at once. Those show up as two events at the same time, which looks like a bug but is correct. If you only want games that count, hide the feed until Opening Day or filter by the "Spring Training" note in the event title.

How to pre-add the postseason

Postseason matchups are only known on the final day of the regular season, and later rounds depend on series length. Block these 2026 windows as all-day placeholders:

• Wild Card Series — September 29 to October 1, 2026 (best-of-3, all games at the higher seed)
• Division Series — October 3–10, 2026 (best-of-5)
• League Championship Series — October 12–20, 2026 (best-of-7)
• World Series — from about October 23, 2026, Game 7 around October 31

Exact days are published by MLB in September. If your team qualifies, the games appear in the subscribed feed automatically.

Time zones and West-coast starts

Feeds carry the ballpark's local time. A Dodgers home game at 7:10 PM Pacific shows as 10:10 PM Eastern, and a Yankees day game at 1:05 PM Eastern shows as 10:05 AM in Los Angeles. Google Calendar and Apple Calendar convert this correctly. If you follow a team across the country, consider turning on a second time zone in Google Calendar — our time-zone guide shows how.