Planning gurus of the Major Baseball League still prioritize weekend matches. Fans and families are much more ready to stay late at the weekend stadium, especially soon in the season, when school is in session for children. Therefore, the days scheduled for Friday, Saturday or Sunday are extremely rare in sport.
However, the Rays of St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay will take a break in the middle of their series on Saturday.
The gaming of cardinals started with deference to the pre-season match of Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the Buffalo Bills
MLB is one of the most popular sports leagues in the world. From Japan to the Dominican Republic in Cuba, baseball is one of the most watched sports in the world. Nevertheless, the American pastime still plays the second violin of football.
The pre-season games of the National Football League began two weeks ago in early August. These exhibition games are similar to MLB spring training: they allow players to prepare for the regular season.
Although NFL pre-season matches are often little frequented, they can always draw fans total in the range of ten to two thousand while some games can reach even higher heights. The television program is also strong among the loyalists of football.
The weekend of August 23 is the last week of pre-season games for the NFL, so it should have high attendance and audience rates.
The Buccaneers of Tampa Bay, who play only one mile from the temporary location of the Rays of Tampa Bay by George M. Steinbrenner Field, have a pre-season match planned to start at 6.30 p.m. local time. This interfered with the game of cardinal rays.
The Cardinals and Rays had initially planned for the first time scheduled at 7:05 p.m., but this match was moved last Thursday at 7:35 p.m., this match was moved to avoid a conflict with the BUCS pre-season match against the Bills right opposite.
The Rays play the 2025 season on the New York Yankees Spring Training Site due to damage to Tropicana Field caused by Hurricane Milton in October 2024. The too much is being reconstitated at the moment, so the Yankees have lent their spring training center to Rays for the year. Steinbrenner Field can contain just over 11,000 fans, a drop in the bucket compared to the capacity of 75,000 fans of the Raymond James Stadium.
Although neither the cardinals nor the Rays are jostling for a place in the playoff series, an MLB regular match should have priority on a pre-season match of the NFL. Seeing baseball take a football rear seat even before the latter’s regular season shows how powerful NFL is as a business.
The Rays also had a match against the Boston Red Sox. The two clubs were to play on Sunday September 21 at 12:10 p.m., but the match was transferred to an evening case due to the planned BUCS match at 1:00 p.m. against New York Jets.
The cardinals beat the Rays in the 7-4 Thursday match thanks to many Rays errors and a multi-coup game from Lars Nootbaar, Alec Burleson, Willson Contreras and Nolan Gorman. After abandoning Friday evening’s match at the Rays, the cardinals will try to take the series on Sunday afternoon. The first land is scheduled at 12:10 p.m. local time.
