NEW YORK — Main League Baseball switched a pair of collection involving the Tampa Bay Rays to the primary two months of the season in an try and keep away from summer time rain at open-air Steinbrenner Area, their short-term residence following injury to Tropicana Area.
Tampa Bay is scheduled to play 19 of its first 22 video games at residence and 37 of 54 by Might 28, then will play 64 of its final 108 video games on the street. The Rays are residence for eight video games every in July and August.
A collection scheduled on the Los Angeles Angels from April 7-9 will as an alternative be performed at Tampa, Florida, from April 8-10, MLB stated Monday. The second collection between the groups will probably be performed at Anaheim, California, from Aug. 4-6 as an alternative of at St. Petersburg, Florida, from Aug. 5-7.
Minnesota’s first collection in opposition to the Rays will probably be performed at Steinbrenner Area from Might 26-28 and the Twins’ second will probably be at Goal Area in Minneapolis from July 4-6.
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Tampa Bay heads into the All-Star break with a 10-game journey to Minnesota, Detroit and Boston and has a 12-game journey to the Angels, Seattle, Oakland and San Francisco from Aug. 4-17.
Tropicana Area, the Rays’ residence for the reason that staff began play in 1998, was closely broken by Hurricane Milton on Oct. 9, with most of its material roof shredded. The Rays can not return to the Trop till 2026 on the earliest, if in any respect.
Tampa’s common month-to-month rainfall from 1991 to 2020 was 2.25 inches in April and a couple of.60 in Might, in keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service, then rose to 7.37 in June, 7.75 in July and 9.03 in August earlier than falling to six.09 in September.
The Class A Tampa Tarpons, the same old staff at Steinbrenner Area, had six residence postponements, two cancellations and 4 suspended video games this 12 months from June 21 by their season finale on Sept. 8.
The Rays at the moment are scheduled to play their first six video games at residence in opposition to Colorado and Pittsburgh, go to Texas for a three-game collection, then return for a 13-game homestand in opposition to the Angels, Atlanta, Boston and the New York Yankees.
The Tarpons will play their residence video games on a again area.
