Let's Road Trip Cubs 2025: Trip #11 - From Clydesdales to Canada

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When the Cubs make their final trip to St. Louis and their only trip to Toronto in August, the playoff picture should be coming into focus. Will any of these teams still be visible? Or will the season have already passed them by?

Image courtesy of CNW Group/Toronto Blue Jays

St. Louis Cardinals - August 8-10
Busch Stadium - Capacity 44,383
2024 Attendance: 2,869,783 (Averaged 35,872, ranked 6th out of 15 NL parks, 7th overall MLB)

The Cubs don't have any cool trips to St. Louis this season, only steamy ones. Busch Stadium should be rocking for this classic matchup of bitter rivals, but will either team still be in contention by mid-August? The trip down to St. Louis is always worth it, regardless of the situation in the standings. But here's to hoping that these games actually matter when the Cubs invade the arch.

You can see a full write-up of Busch Stadium and its surrounding attractions here.

 

Win, lose, or evaporate, it's time to grab the passports for trip to Canada!

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Toronto Blue Jays - August 12-14
Rogers Centre – Capacity 39,150
2024 attendance: 2,681,236 (Averaged 33,101, ranked 3rd out of 15 AL parks, 9th overall MLB)

The Cubs journeyed north of the border to Toronto in August 2023, and they left with two victories and one defeat. The good news is the Cubs' passports should all be prepared and ready from their earlier trip to Tokyo. The bad news: they often receive a rude welcome in Canada. The Cubs have only won six games and lost nine in their interleague travels to Toronto since 2003.

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 from what I can tell. 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 edition of the team's biannual trip to Toronto.

From here, the Cubs travel back home for seven games against NL Central foes from Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. No time to rest, and no off-days either. Will the Cubs have what it takes to stay in the fight during these dog days of summer travel?

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