The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros will start the 2013 Major League Baseball regular season with a primetime game on ESPN. It will be the first game in the American League for the host Astros, who have moved to the AL West from the NL Central. The game will take place Sunday, March 31st. On April 1st, games between the Red Sox and Yankees, Giants and Dodgers, Phillies and Braves and Cardinals and Diamondbacks will all be broadcast on either ESPN or ESPN2.