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Rays to continue offering $10 tickets to games after attendance increase

The Rays will again offer $10 tickets to all games, a program that was well received by fans last seasongetty images
The Rays will "stick to a mostly similar ticketing plan for 2024” after drawing their "most fans last season since 2014," according to Marc Topkin of the TAMPA BAY TIMES. The Rays again will "offer $10 tickets to all games,” a program “launched last year they felt went well.” Like in 2023, at “least 1,000 of the $10 tickets will be available for each game” with "seating in the Party Deck above leftfield and select lower-level areas.” As they did last year, the Rays will put single-game tickets “on sale in advance of the holiday season,” with sales to the general public starting on Dec. 7. The Rays will also push weeknight start times "back to 6:50 for the coming season," after having moved them “up to 6:40pm last year." Rays Chief Business Officer Bill Walsh said that the adjustment was made to “allow more time for fans, especially from Tampa and points beyond, to arrive but also to get them home early.” Topkin noted the Rays drew 1,440,301 fans last season, an “increase of 27.7% from 2022” and their “most since 1,446,464 in 2014" (TAMPA BAY TIMES, 11/29).

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