The 2025 season schedule was released earlier Thursday by Major League Baseball. One new wrinkle added to the schedule is a “Rivalry Week”, where teams play their designated rivals on May 16-18. Many of these rivalries are based on sharing the same metro area, and others are based on proximity to each other. For the Arizona Diamondbacks, their designated rival is the Colorado Rockies, who will be visiting Chase Field that weekend.
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MLB will have a "Rivalry Week" in 2025, during which all fifteen series matchups will feature some form of rivalry — geographical (NY/NY, LA/LA etc), historical (Bos/Atl), or the last two left without a lab partner (Sea/SD) pic.twitter.com/oV5SuGcmmZ
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The Diamondbacks and Rockies have both played in the National League West since the 1998 season. Arizona has won 15 of the 27 season series between the two teams, including the last two seasons, with a 257-203 overall record. They’ve met up twice in the postseason, with the Rockies sweeping the 2007 National League Championship Series and the Diamondbacks winning the 2017 National League Wild Card game 11-8.
Part of the reason for this rivalry comes down to geography. While Denver and Phoenix aren’t the closest MLB cities to each other, being in the same division with some postseason history between the two clubs certainly doesn’t hurt. The two organizations also share the same complex at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick.
It will be interesting to see how this works out in the scheduling. With the current schedule, all 30 teams play each other every year. In the case of the Diamondbacks and Rockies, they play each other 13 times a year due to being in the same division. As a result of that, I don’t think slapping a “Rivalry Week” label to that series makes it any more or less important between the two teams.
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Michael McDermott covers the Arizona Diamondbacks, Arizona Cardinals, and more for Burn City Sports. You can follow him on X via @MichaelMcDMLB
