- The Tampa Bay Rays hosted the Texas Rangers to kick off the MLB postseason on Tuesday afternoon, but it was not the raucous crowd usually found in a playoff atmosphere.
- Attendance at Tropicana Field, the home of the Rays in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been notoriously low compared to other MLB teams for years. It is an outdated dome that already has plans to be vacated in 2028.
- However, while it does not come as a surprise that a Tuesday afternoon game at “The Trop” was not filled to the brim for the postseason bout, the number on the attendance sheet was historically bad.
