Let's Road Trip Brewers 2025: Trip #12 - Passports Necessary! - Brewers

As August comes to a close, the Brewers take a little trip to Toronto to take on the Blue Jays. One city, one goal. Time to win some road games against a hopefully depleted opponent.

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Toronto Blue Jays - August 29-31
Rogers Centre – Capacity 39,150
2024 attendance was 2,681,236 (Averaged 33,101, ranked 3rd out of 15 AL parks, 9th overall MLB)

In June 2023, the 28-25 Brewers took their passports across the border to the Rogers Centre and they came back with one win and two losses against a Blue Jays squad that was 28-26. This is how road trips usually go when the teams are competitively equal, so no surprises there. In the 67 meetings between the Brewers and Blue Jays that have taken place in Canada since 1989 (remember, American League roots), the Brewers have gone 35-32.

So how does that play into the 2025 adventure in late August? The series will probably end in a two games to one split, and the ultimate victor will probably be the team that has the best playoff momentum at the time. Brewers fans can gauge that accordingly before they buy their tickets, but if you need a passport, you are going to want to start that process yesterday!

When Toronto got their MLB franchise in 1977, they started out in a retro-fitted football field called Exhibition Stadium. It was 1989 that brought the SkyDome (renamed Rogers Centre in 2005), soon to gain classic replay status for Joe Carter’s World Series winner and back-to-back championships. In the 2010’s, the Blue Jays even boasted the highest attendance in the American League!

The SkyDome/Rogers Centre boasts about being the first stadium in the world with a fully retractable motorized roof, hosts a hotel with rooms that look out onto the field, and rests within the Old Downtown neighborhood of the fourth largest city in North America. The field itself? A bit cookie-cutter in form, with excellent food and tourist vibes throughout the concourses.

The sounds, tastes, and sights of Toronto are pretty epic. The CN Tower observation deck, Lake Ontario beaches and waterfront, the Hockey Hall of Fame, and an actual “distillery district,” all exist within a few blocks of the ballpark. If you don't have your passport yet, now's the time to get your paperwork rolling if you want to catch this year's edition of Milwaukee's biannual trip.

After this one-city tour, the Brewers head back home to face the Phillies in a three-game series (with an off-day on the 2nd). The playoff push is on, but who will be doing the pushing on this trip?