Well, there were certainly some nerve-wracking moments in yesterday’s Pirates-Reds Under, but thankfully, the bet holds true and continues this strong start to the season. Never get content. 

To conclude the major league campaign’s third week, we’re going to head to George M. Steinbrenner Field for the first time. That’s where the Tampa Bay Rays are playing their home games this year (and beyond?) after the wreckage Tropicana Field endured last fall at the hands of Hurricane Milton and they’ll be taking on the Atlanta Braves today in the series finale after both clubs split the first two matchups.

Just like with the Athletics playing in a new ballpark in Sacramento, you should want to take a wait-and-see approach in noting how these new venues play out, at least in the early going. After all, this is a spring training stadium – belonging to the New York Yankees – we’re dealing with and it’s curious to observe how the games play out during regular season months in the typically hot Florida air. 

Remember, the Rays and Miami Marlins both host action indoors at their normal home fields, so the typically hotter Florida air is never really a factor within a season – until now. 

Tampa Bay has had 11 home games thus far and those contests produced a total of 84 runs combined – or an average of 7.6 runs per game. So, nothing really out of the ordinary, at least until we reach the hotter summer portion of the slate.

That hopefully means for now we can still just focus on deciphering the pitching matchup in order to score a duke on the betting record. And there’s a good one on tap Sunday afternoon.