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The stadium hosted its first regular season MLB games from May 15 through 17, 2007 season when the Texas Rangers played the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in a three-game series. The three games drew a total of 26,917 fans, and attendance went up each game. In April 2008, the Rays moved another series, this time against the Toronto Blue Jays, to Orlando. [9]
The stadium had been set up to serve as a base for relief workers. [18] Due to the plans to break ground on a new stadium for the Rays, the future of the stadium is undetermined; the Rays plan to play their 2025 season at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, with the possibility of a renovation by 2026. [19]
The Tampa Bay Rays (then the Devil Rays), an American League expansion team in 1998, assumed the Orlando Rays' major-league affiliation the following year. The Orlando Rays' last season at Tinker Field was 1999. From 2000 to 2003, the Orlando Rays played in Kissimmee, Florida, in Champion Stadium at Walt Disney World Resort.
To avoid the summer humidity, which can reach levels of 90% or higher in July and August, MLB has moved an April three-game series (April 7-9) between the Rays and Los Angeles Angels from Anaheim ...
The Rays needed a home for the 2025 season after a survey of Tropicana Field post-Hurricane Milton found that while the stadium remained structurally sound, the cost of repairs would total $55.7 ...
The new Rays stadium is slated to be the $1.3 billion centerpiece of the Gas Plant District redevelopment in St. Petersburg. This story has been updated with new information The USA TODAY app gets ...
The 2025 Tampa Bay Rays season will be the 28th season of the Tampa Bay Rays franchise and their 18th as the Rays. The Rays will play their home games at George M. Steinbrenner Field , as a temporary home due to Hurricane Milton's damage to Tropicana Field, as members of Major League Baseball 's American League East Division .
The Tampa Bay Rays got good news Tuesday: their home stadium, Tropicana Field, is structurally sound after taking major damage from Hurricane Milton last month.. In a 412-page report, the city of ...