(SUNRISE, FL) – Fox Sports Net Florida today announced a 75-game telecast schedule for the 2004 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season. (Complete Rays cable telecast schedule follows; a two game Spring Training schedule was previously announced).
Fox Sports Net's award winning coverage of Rays baseball begins its 2004 regular season on Wednesday, April 7 at 4:00pm as the Devil Rays host the New York Yankees at Tropicana Field. The complete 75-game regular season telecast schedule features 33 home and 42 away match-ups with highlights including 10 games against Derek Jeter and the AL Champion New York Yankees, 8 games against the pitching duo of Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling of the Boston Red Sox and 7 meetings with Javy Lopez and new Manager Lee Mazzilli of the Baltimore Orioles. Interleague match-ups include home games against Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants and road games against the World Series Champion Florida Marlins.
Calling the action for Rays games for the seventh consecutive season is the broadcasting team of Dewayne Staats and Joe Magrane. Working together on Fox Sports Net since the team's inaugural season in 1998, Staats and Magrane have been the only television announcers in Ray's history. Staats, a 30-year veteran of television and radio, anchors the Emmy-Award winning telecast, as play-by-play announcer. Magrane, who played in the Major Leagues for eight years, returns for a seventh season as color analyst with his trademark insight and sense of humor. Fox Sports Net is proud to welcome back Todd Kalas as host of Fox Sports Net's Ray's pre-game show, RAYS ON DECK.
Fox Sports Net Florida will once again produce a total of 140 Rays games for Fox Sports Net and the Rays Television Network during the 2004 season. Producer/director Thom Hastings returns for his seventh season with the team and his 22nd directing live professional sports events.
| DATE | OPPONENT | TIME | |
| Wed. | April 7 | v. NY Yankees | 4:00p |
| Sun. | April 11 | v. Baltimore | 1:00p |
| Tue. | April 13 | @ NY Yankees | 7:00p |
| Wed. | April 14 | @ NY Yankees | 1:00p |
| Fri. | April 16 | v. Chicago W. Sox | 7:00p |
| Sun. | April 18 | v. Chicago W. Sox | 1:00p |
| Thu. | April 22 | @ Baltimore | 7:00p |
| Sat. | April 24 | @ Chicago W. Sox | 2:00p |
| Sun. | April 25 | @ Chicago W. Sox | 3:00p |
| Wed. | April 28 | @ Boston | 7:00p |
| Thu. | April 29 | @ Boston | 7:00p |
| Sat. | May 1 | v. Oakland | 6:00p |
| Mon. | May 3 | @ Texas | 8:00p |
| Fri. | May 7 | @ Anaheim | 10:00p |
| Sat. | May 8 | @ Anaheim | 10:00p |
| Thu. | May 13 | v. Texas | 2:00p |
| Sat. | May 15 | @ Cleveland | 1:00p |
| Sun. | May 16 | @ Cleveland | 1:00p |
| Thu. | May 20 | v. Boston | 7:00p |
| Sat. | May 22 | v. Cleveland | 6:00p |
| Sun. | May 23 | v. Cleveland | 1:00p |
| Fri. | May 28 | v. NY Yankees | 7:00p |
| Sun. | May 30 | v. NY Yankees | 1:00p |
| Wed. | June 2 | @ Minnesota | 8:00p |
| Sat. | June 5 | @ Baltimore | 4:30p |
| Sun. | June 6 | @ Baltimore | 1:30p |
| Wed. | June 9 | v. San Francisco | 7:00p |
| Sun. | June 13 | v. Colorado | 1:00p |
| Wed. | June 16 | @ San Diego | 10:00p |
| Thu. | June 17 | @ San Diego | 10:00p |
| Sat. | June 19 | @ Arizona | 10:00p |
| Sun. | June 20 | @ Arizona | 4:30p |
| Thu. | June 24 | @ Toronto | 12:30p |
| Tue. | June 29 | v. Toronto | 7:00p |
| Thu. | July 1 | v. Toronto | 2:00p |
| Mon. | July 5 | @ Baltimore | 1:30p |
| Thu. | July 8 | @ NY Yankees | 7:00p |
| Sun. | July 11 | @ NY Yankees | 1:00p |
| Thu. | July 15 | v. Baltimore | 7:00p |
| Fri. | July 16 | v. Baltimore | 12:00p |
| Sun. | July 18 | v. Baltimore | 1:00p |
| Tue. | July 20 | v. NY Yankees | 2:00p |
| Fri. | July 23 | @ Toronto | 7:00p |
| Sun. | July 25 | @ Toronto | 1:00p |
| Thu. | July 29 | v. Kansas City | 7:00p |
| Sat. | July 31 | v. Toronto | 6:00p |
| Sun. | August 1 | v. Toronto | 1:00p |
| Thu. | August 5 | v. Seattle | 7:00p |
| Sat. | August 7 | v. Seattle | 6:00p |
| Sun. | August 8 | v. Seattle | 1:00p |
| Mon. | August 9 | @ Boston | 7:00p |
| Wed. | August 11 | @ Boston | 7:00p |
| Thu. | August 12 | @ Boston | 1:00p |
| Sat. | August 14 | @ Texas | 8:00p |
| Sun. | August 15 | @ Texas | 2:00p |
| Tue. | August 17 | v. Anaheim | 7:00p |
| Thu. | August 19 | v. Anaheim | 2:00p |
| Sat. | August 21 | v. Oakland | 6:00p |
| Sun. | August 22 | v. Oakland | 1:00p |
| Mon. | August 23 | @ Seattle | 10:00p |
| Fri. | August 27 | @ Oakland | 10:00p |
| Sun. | August 29 | @ Oakland | 4:00p |
| Sun. | September 5 | v. Detroit | 1:00p |
| Wed. | September 8 | @ NY Yankees | 7:00p |
| Thu. | September 9 | @ NY Yankees | 7:00p |
| Fri. | September 10 | @ Kansas City | 8:00p |
| Sat. | September 11 | @ Kansas City | 7:00p |
| Sun. | September 12 | @ Kansas City | 2:00p |
| Wed. | September 15 | @ Boston | 7:00p |
| Thu. | September 16 | @ Boston | 7:00p |
| Sun. | September 19 | @ Toronto | 1:00p |
| Mon. | September 20 | v. Kansas City | 7:00p |
| Sat. | September 25 | v. Toronto | 6:00p |
| Mon. | September 27 | v. Boston | 7:00p |
| Sat. | October 2 | @ Detroit | 7:00p |
* Schedule subject to change. All games are Eastern.
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