The New York Yankees will open the home portion of their 2024 regular season schedule on Friday, April 5, at 1:05 p.m. against the Toronto Blue Jays. All Yankee Stadium gates will open to Guests with valid tickets beginning at 11:00 a.m. All Guests in attendance will receive an Opening Day Commemorative Ticket.
Pregame ceremonies will begin at approximately 12:30 p.m., with the introduction of both teams on the baselines.
The Yankees are an impressive 5-1 so far after opening the season with games in Houston and Arizona.
Guests are strongly encouraged to arrive as early as possible to avoid lines that will increase in length as game time approaches.
The Yankees are partnering with CLEAR to provide ticketed fans with a faster, easier way into Yankee Stadium. To utilize CLEAR, download the free CLEAR app, sign up, and enter through the designated CLEAR expedited entry lanes at Babe Ruth Plaza and the Suite Entrance (for Guests with Suite access).
For the third consecutive home opener, a giant American flag will be unfurled by Yankees season-ticket holders prior to the national anthem, which will be sung by United States Army Warrant Officer 1 Craig Morgan Greer. Known as Craig Morgan to country music fans, he is a 17-time Billboard charted artist, who recently reenlisted into the Army Reserve with the goal of completing 20 years of service. The Canadian national anthem, “O Canada,” will be sung by Canadian actor/musician Noah Reid and the presentation of colors will be performed by the U.S. Army West Point Cadet Honor Guard. Former Yankees outfielder, Monument Park inductee and current YES Network broadcaster Paul O’Neill will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Yankee Stadium will also feature guest performer DJay Jung, who will play music prior to the game and during inning breaks. Broadway performer Joey Sorge from MJ The Musical will sing “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch.
The Yankees will face Toronto in their home opener for the fourth time in franchise history (also 2021, ’15 and ’08), and it will mark the eighth time in the last 10 seasons (since 2015) that the Yankees’ home opener will be against an AL East team. The Yankees own an 81-39-1 all-time record in home openers and have won six of the last seven since 2017.
The Yankees’ homestand continues Saturday, April 6, at 7:05 p.m., and Sunday, April 7, at 1:35 p.m. with games against Toronto, followed by a three-game series from Monday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 10, against the Miami Marlins.
All guests at Sunday’s game against Toronto (April 7) will receive a 2024 Yankees Calendar presented by Mastercard.
On Monday, April 8, the Yankees will acknowledge the solar eclipse with a special 2:05 p.m. start time. The first 15,000 guests in attendance will receive a Yankees Solar Eclipse T-Shirt presented by HubSpot, and fans in-Stadium will be treated to space-themed scoreboard content.
The ceremonial first pitch will be thrown by Cynthia Simmons, Deputy Director of Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who has served as a Chair and Subject Matter Expert on NASA Standing Review Boards and has provided engineering support for more than 20 launches for NASA, the Department of Defense, commercial ventures and science missions. Simmons will be joined on the field by high-achieving science students from Bronx Community School District 9, who will participate in an on-field ceremony to announce the District 9 Science Fair, which will take place at the Stadium later this year.
Gates for the final five games of the homestand will open 90 minutes before the scheduled first pitch.
