In 1996, the Padres and the New York Mets traveled to Monterrey, Mexico, to play Major League Baseball’s first regular-season series outside the United States or Canada. The Padres went back in 1999, hosting the Colorado Rockies in the first regular-season opener south of the border.

Next May, the Padres could return to Estadio Monterrey.

Mexican news reports on Saturday said the Padres’ May 4-6 series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, currently scheduled to be held at Petco Park, will move to Monterrey.

Nothing, at this point, appears finalized. MLB officials say the league is still working through logistics.


A Dodgers-Padres series in Mexico City had been proposed, but delays in the construction of a new ballpark and Tuesday’s devastating earthquake have complicated those discussions.

“I am still hopeful that we’re going to play in Mexico,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday during a visit to Petco Park. “Whether it’s going to be in Mexico City or someplace else depends on some logistical issues that we’re trying to work our way through. That situation, obviously, has been complicated by recent events. Understanding all of that, I still hope that we will play major league regular-season games (in Mexico) next year.”

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