Preliminary schedule shows Dodgers coming to Yankee Stadium in 2016

According to Bill Plunkett, the preliminary 2016 schedule has the Dodgers coming to Yankee Stadium for an interleague series next season. There’s no word on the rest of the schedule yet. It’s still subject to change anyway. The Yankees are due to play the NL West during interleague play next year though.

Prior to the last interleague series between these two clubs in 2013, the Dodgers had not played in the Bronx since the 1981 World Series. The Yankees and Dodgers played two two-game series two years ago — they split two games in the Bronx and then split two at Dodger Stadium. For some reason I remember the fourth of those four games was a pretty great pitchers’ duel between Hiroki Kuroda and Clayton Kershaw:

Man I miss Kuroda. He has a 2.68 ERA in 94 innings for the Hiroshima Carp this season, you know. I do not, however, miss the 2013 Yankees having to rely on Lyle Overbay and Jayson Nix to get big hits. Remember when people used to say Overbay was better than Mark Teixeira because he got big hits? That was a real thing that happened in Yankeeland.

Anyway, hopefully the Dodgers retain Don Mattingly as manager next season so he can come back to the Bronx to get a massive ovation. He hasn’t been able to come back for Old Timers’ Day for a few years now because he’s been coaching and managing in Los Angeles. The official schedule usually is not released until September, so we still have to wait a few weeks to see the Yankees’ full 2016 slate.