Article: Red Sox Road Trip No. 14: Tampa to Toronto Two-Step

[Steve Trefz]

The MLB schedulers love the Tampa to Toronto road trip, which appears across numerous team calendars every year. The Sox have already made both trips by the time this final journey of the season rolls around, but will these games have unique factors in play?

Tampa Bay Rays -September 19-21
George M. Steinbrenner Field - Capacity 11,026
2024 Attendance (at Tropicana Field): 1,337,739 (Averaged 16,515, 14th in AL, 28th overall)

The Red Sox are one of the few teams that offer their fans two trips to the cozy environment of Steinbrenner Field during the season. If you missed the trip on Road Trip Number Two, don’t miss it now when the season is on the line. Odds are that one of the teams will still have something to play for, so given the tiny capacity of the ballpark, you might need to snap up your tickets early. From the sunny shores of Tampa, the Sox grab their passports and head back to Canada to face the rival Blue Jays.

Toronto Blue Jays - September 23-25
Rogers Centre – Capacity 39,150
2024 attendance was 2,681,236 (Averaged 33,101, third in AL, ninth overall)

After a travel off-day, the Red Sox return to Rogers Centre to take on a most-likely depleted Blue Jays roster. If they can’t make a run, the Toronto stars that faced the Sox on Road Trip Number Three might no longer be wearing blue by September. Can the Sox take advantage, or will they be in the same boat?

And there you have it Sox fans, after 46,657 miles of road trips, Boston will finally return home one more time to finish the season against the Detroit Tigers. When the season ends on September 28, where do you think all of these games and trips and memories will leave the Red Sox? With more games to play in the postseason, or left wondering what might have been? Only time will tell, but I hope you get a chance to experience the story somewhere in person in 2025.

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