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. The home of the Rays, attendance at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been notoriously low compared to other MLB teams for years. There were just 19,704 fans in attendance to see the Rays fall to the Rangers, 4-0, and the Game 1 crowd was the lowest attendance for a postseason game since Game 7 of the 1919 World Series in Cincinnati, per The Athletic. Related articleThis record is obviously excluding the 2020 shortened MLB season, which had only a select group of fans present for postseason play at various locations. The Rays, though, had 1,440,301 fans in attendance for its 81 games at The Trop, which is an average of 17,781.

Source: Fox News October 04, 2023 15:02 UTC