\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Tampa Bay Rays are making their anticipated return to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, after it was ravaged by Hurricane Milton in October 2024.The Trop underwent over $55 million in renovations to repair the damage from Hurricane Milton while the team played its 2025 home games at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, the spring training home of the New York Yankees.The Rays return home for a series with the Chicago Cubs following Tampa’s nine-game road trip to kick off their season. Gulf Coast News sports reporter Bradley Shimel will be at the game to bring live coverage of Monday’s game, as Cape Coral High alum Shane McClanahan is scheduled to take the mound for the Rays.McClanahan hasn’t pitched at the Trop in 978 days as he battled multiple injuries in the past couple of seasons.The Rays (4-5) vs. Cubs (4-5) series opener will be broadcast on Gulf Coast ABC (WZVN) with game coverage beginning at 4 p.m.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Tampa Bay Rays are making their anticipated return to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, after it was ravaged by Hurricane Milton in October 2024.<\/p>\n
The Trop underwent over $55 million in renovations to repair the damage from Hurricane Milton while the team played its 2025 home games at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, the spring training home of the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
The Rays return home for a series with the Chicago Cubs following Tampa’s nine-game road trip to kick off their season. Gulf Coast News sports reporter Bradley Shimel will be at the game to bring live coverage of Monday’s game, as Cape Coral High alum Shane McClanahan is scheduled to take the mound for the Rays.<\/p>\n
McClanahan hasn’t pitched at the Trop in 978 days as he battled multiple injuries in the past couple of seasons.<\/p>\n
The Rays (4-5) vs. Cubs (4-5) series opener will be broadcast on Gulf Coast ABC (WZVN)<\/a> with game coverage beginning at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays are making their anticipated return to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, after it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,161,1296,5061,182,52934,16181,4682,31278,4,62,2019,297,35749,1479,1646,5720,185,5796,295,2550,68,2551,2549,5033,8607,217,3348],"class_list":{"0":"post-666712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cubs","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-first-game","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-gulf-coast-news-app","14":"tag-hurricane-milton","15":"tag-junior-caminero","16":"tag-late-news","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-new-york-yankees","19":"tag-ray","20":"tag-rays","21":"tag-roof","22":"tag-season","23":"tag-series","24":"tag-shane-mcclanahan","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-st-petersburg","27":"tag-tampa","28":"tag-tampa-bay","29":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","30":"tag-tampabay","31":"tag-tampabayrays","32":"tag-trop","33":"tag-tropicana-field","34":"tag-weather","35":"tag-yandy-diaz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116358827462332450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}