Main League Baseball on Thursday clarified that the Tampa Bay Rays could be allowed to play any postseason house video games at their momentary house ballpark, Steinbrenner Area, MLB.com experiences. 

The Rays are taking part in the 2025 season on the New York Yankees’ spring coaching advanced as their standard house venue, Tropicana Area, undergoes main repairs after Hurricane Milton severely broken it in October of 2024. Whereas Tropicana Area is anticipated to be game-ready in time for the 2026 season, it is not going to be able to host postseason baseball. As such, the Rays, ought to they qualify for the playoffs, would play any house video games at a ten,046-seat stadium that sometimes hosts the Single-A Tampa Tarpons of the Florida State League. This, in fact, raises the difficult chance that such a small ballpark may very well be the setting for ALCS and even World Sequence video games. 

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Underneath the present playoff format, the second- and third-wild-card groups in every league don’t play a house recreation until they advance to the Division Sequence spherical. For the Rays to be assured a house playoff recreation, they must both safe the highest wild-card spot within the American League or win their division. Step one, then, is for the Rays to earn one of many six accessible playoff berths on the AL aspect. On the break, the Rays are 50-47 and in fourth place within the powerful AL East. Nonetheless, they’re additionally simply 1 ½ video games behind the Seattle Mariners for the third and closing wild-card spot. The Rays’ plus-61 run differential additionally suggests they have been a bit unfortunate up to now and possibly deserve a greater file than the one they’ve. 

They will enter the second half with a 3-9 file in July — a pattern they will must reverse hurriedly if they are going to make up the mandatory floor.