Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday evening that the first two regular season series of the 2022 regular season have been cancelled, as the owner-imposed lockout continues.
For the Philadelphia Phillies, that means that their three-game series in Houston and a two-game series in D.C. are now cancelled. An MLB spokesperson previously had said that cancelled games would not be made up.
That means that the first game on the 2022 schedule for the Phillies right now is April 8 against the Oakland Athletics at Citizens Bank Park. Seemingly, though, that series and those that follow in it are in jeopardy if the league and MLB Players Association cannot reach a deal in the coming days.