According to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, the 2020 MLB schedule will be officially released Monday evening at 6pm ET on MLB Network. It had previously been announced that two nationally televised games would kick off the season on July 23, with everyone else opening up the following day. The Cubs are not among those early participants, so they will play their first game on July 24.
The #MLB 2020 schedule will be officially announced at 6 [ET] tonight on the @MLBNetwork
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) July 6, 2020
As Nightengale had tweeted over the weekend, the Yankees at Nats and Giants at Dodgers are expected to be the participants in those first two games.