ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays and Major League Baseball have made some slight adjustments in their 2025 schedule to avoid playing too many games in the summer heat and rain at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa Bay.

The Rays are swapping a home-and-away series with both the Angels and the Twins, moving road games to Tampa in April and May and instead playing in Minnesota and Anaheim in July and August.

The schedule modifications will keep the Rays — and their fans — from too many uncomfortable dates at Steinbrenner Field. But it also means the Rays will have a schedule that is overburdened with road games in the summer months.

The Rays will play at home for 37 of their first 58 games when the weather is somewhat cooler in April/May, but will be on the road for 35 of 51 games in July and August.

The April 7-9 series that was originally scheduled for Anaheim will now be played in Tampa on April 8-10. In exchange, the Rays will move three homes games originally scheduled for Aug. 5-7 to Anaheim on Aug. 4-6. That means the Rays will have a 12-game road trip across 14 days from Anaheim to Seattle to Sacramento to San Francisco.

A May 26-28 series against the Twins in Minneapolis will now be played on the same dates in Tampa. In exchange, the Rays will go to Target Field on July 4-6. That will be part of a 10-game road trek from Minnesota to Detroit to Boston right before the All-Star break.

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