First American League pennant in 2008
The Rays went from last place to 97 wins and their first AL East title, then beat the White Sox and Red Sox to reach the World Series.
2008
First World Series appearance in franchise history
Tampa Bay Rays Attendance Tracker
Build a lifetime archive of Tampa Bay Rays games you've attended. Ticket Timeline turns Rays history into a lasting personal baseball record centered on real seats at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg and beyond—not a live-score feed or ticket marketplace.
For iPhone & Android
Tampa Bay Rays trail by 3+ runs late—and still find a way to win
Down 3 or more runs in the late innings—and the Rays found a way to win anyway.
~10% of games
About 1 in 10 late comebacks
First interleague game for the Tampa Bay Rays franchise
The Tampa Bay Devil Rays played their first regular-season interleague game on 6/5/1998, losing 2-5 at home against the Montreal Expos in their expansion season. MLB introduced regular-season interleague play beginning June 12, 1997.
1st
FIRST INTERLEAGUE GAME IN FRANCHISE HISTORY
Example: a top night from a season you attended
When enough games are in your archive, Ticket Timeline can rank nights you attended — for example a high-attendance Rays game. This card is an illustration, not a logged result.
#8
Example rank, not an observed game
Pitcher throws an immaculate inning
Three strikeouts on nine pitches—a full side retired without the ball leaving the strike zone.
121
Thrown in MLB history—rarer than a perfect game
Tampa Bay Rays Snapshot
- League
- MLB (Major League Baseball)
- Home venue
- Tropicana Field
- Location
- St. Petersburg, FL, USA
- Abbreviation
- TB
Team Colors
Primary: #092C5C
Secondary: #8FBCE6
Home venues in Ticket Timeline's game data
Buildings the Rays have called home in the attendance data Ticket Timeline uses—useful when an old ticket names a different building during the 2025 hurricane-repair season.
- Current home: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, FL (1998–2024 and 2026–present)
- Temporary home: George M. Steinbrenner Field, Tampa, FL (2025 only)
Coverage in Ticket Timeline's game data starts in 1998—a data-coverage year, not a franchise-founding claim.
After Hurricane Milton damaged Tropicana Field's roof in October 2024, the Rays played the entire 2025 season at Steinbrenner Field—the Yankees' spring-training park in Tampa—before returning to a repaired Tropicana Field for 2026. If your ticket says Steinbrenner Field, that's a real Rays home game from that season, not a mistake.
Tampa Bay Rays play home games at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL, USA. Dates for those nights are anchored in Eastern time. The building list above is what Ticket Timeline uses when an older ticket names a different Rays home, including the 2025 season at Steinbrenner Field.
Rebuild your Rays history
Use that timeline when dating a night: Tropicana Field hosted Rays games from 1998–2024 and again from 2026 onward; George M. Steinbrenner Field was the temporary 2025 home during Tropicana Field repairs. Rebuilding Rays attendance is usually a scavenger hunt: paper tickets and PDF confirmations, camera-roll scoreboard dates, calendar invites, season-ticket statements, and memory anchors (companions, rivals, life events, ballpark names on stubs). Work season by season; a partial list of attended games is enough to start matching opponents and ballparks. When confirmations live in Gmail, import games you've attended walks through a read-only preview before anything is committed. For a shoebox of stubs, see what to do with old ticket stubs.
- Old paper tickets and digital PDFs
- Email receipts and order confirmations
- Camera-roll photos with visible dates or scoreboards
- Calendar entries and season-ticket records
- Memory anchors: opponents, companions, venues, life events
- Steinbrenner Field clues (2025 only)—the temporary hurricane-repair home
- Tropicana Field nights (1998–2024 and 2026–present)—current home at the pinned as-of date
What your Rays archive unlocks
Once you've logged Rays games you attended, Ticket Timeline surfaces the attendance story—not a live scoreboard. Visited insights can include Tropicana Field (1998–present) and the 2025 season at Steinbrenner Field.
Attended
- Total games attended
- Your record when you attended
- Home and road games
Visited
- Ballparks visited
- Nights at Tropicana Field (1998–present)
- Nights during the 2025 season at Steinbrenner Field
- Progress across every Rays home in Ticket Timeline's data
Witnessed
- Players and teams seen
- Historic games witnessed
- Milestone moments witnessed
- Rare moments witnessed
- Achievements earned
- Weather context for the night
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At Tropicana Field
Rays home games today are back at Tropicana Field after the 2025 season at Steinbrenner Field. Use the venue timeline above when an old ticket names Steinbrenner Field instead.
How Ticket Timeline connects your Rays games
Add Rays games from memory, import a spreadsheet, or scan ticket stubs. Ticket Timeline links each attended game to MLB context—teams, ballparks, players, and notable moments—so nights at Tropicana Field and elsewhere become a browsable Tampa Bay Rays archive. Primary focus on this page: a lifetime attendance archive.
A lifetime Rays attendance archive
Ticket Timeline is for fans who want a permanent record of Rays games attended over years—not a live-score feed and not a ticket marketplace. Keep Tropicana Field nights, the 2025 Steinbrenner Field season, and every other attended game in an exportable personal archive.
A memory worth recovering
If your stub names George M. Steinbrenner Field, that's a real 2025 Rays home game, not a misprint—Tropicana Field was being repaired after Hurricane Milton. A lifetime Rays archive can hold every season you attended, hurricane year included, without losing the building printed on each ticket.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What can I track for Tampa Bay Rays games I've attended?
Ticket Timeline is built as a long-term archive of attended Tampa Bay Rays games: teams, ballparks, players, milestones, and moments across seasons, including nights at Tropicana Field.
How do I add Rays games to my timeline?
Add games as you remember them—or import a batch—then keep growing the archive. Ticket Timeline stores attended Rays history with MLB context in an exportable personal record.
Can I track how many ballparks I've visited for MLB?
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you see ballpark progress across the Rays and MLB games you've attended, so you can revisit which ballparks you've been to and keep building that record over seasons.
Can I import years of Rays history from a spreadsheet or Gmail?
Yes. You can import a spreadsheet of attended Rays games, and Ticket Timeline also supports finding games from Gmail ticket confirmations with a read-only, preview-before-commit flow. That makes it easier to reconstruct years of history without retyping every date.
Does Ticket Timeline sell tickets?
No. Ticket Timeline does not sell tickets. It is an app for tracking MLB games you've already attended and exploring the story behind your fandom.
Is Ticket Timeline a permanent archive for Rays fans?
Ticket Timeline is built as a lifetime attendance archive for fans who want attended Tampa Bay Rays games preserved across seasons, including nights at Tropicana Field, with an exportable personal record.
Can I track Tampa Bay Rays games at Tropicana Field?
Yes. Ticket Timeline helps you track Tampa Bay Rays games you attended at Tropicana Field, along with the matchup, players, milestones, and moments tied to each game.
Can I add older Rays games?
Yes. You can add Rays games from past seasons and keep building your baseball timeline as you remember more dates, opponents, and ballpark visits.
Start Building Your Rays Timeline
Build a searchable lifetime record of attended Tampa Bay Rays games.
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