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Although the Rays had the league-best record at the time, Dallas Braden of the Oakland Athletics threw a perfect game against the Rays in May. It was the league's second perfect game in a row thrown against Tampa Bay, the last being in 2009 by Mark Buehrle, and at the time was the shortest amount of time between perfect games in Major League ...
The Tampa Bay area has a long association with amateur and professional baseball. Tampa and St. Petersburg were among the first hosts of Major League Baseball spring training in the 1910s, the Tampa Smokers and St. Petersburg Saints were two of the founding members of the minor league Florida State League (FSL) in 1919, and several other communities in the area also hosted FSL teams in the ...
Luis Severino wearing New York's City Connect uniforms in 2024. Tampa Bay Rays, with a "grit" black base and neon lettering. The jersey features the city name, the first since 2007, outlined in neon across the chest, which features lettering similar to the Devil Rays road jersey from 1998 to 2000.
The Rays’ City Connect uniform, called the “Grit and Glow” uniform, features the words “Tampa Bay” spelled out in neon green and blue, with “Thrasher”-style flames coming off the top ...
The team was originally known as the "Tampa Bay Devil Rays", which was inspired by a common nickname of the manta ray, but after the 2007 season, they shortened their official name to the "Tampa Bay Rays." [2] Tampa Bay made their Major League debut in 1998, where they were an expansion team. [3] For their first ten seasons, Tampa Bay struggled ...
With that in mind, the Tampa Bay Rays made the right call in allowing players to decide for themselves whether to display LGBTQ+ logos and colors on their uniforms for recent Pride Night celebrations.
Because the franchise does not yet have a long history from which to choose uniforms, they have often worn the uniforms of historical local teams such as the Tampa Tarpons of the Florida State League (worn in 1999, 2006, and 2010), the St. Petersburg Pelicans of the Senior Professional Baseball Association (worn in 2008), the St. Petersburg ...
The Rays decided to make their Pride Night uniforms optional, and several players elected not to wear the rainbow hat and sleeve decal.