List of Tampa Bay Rays Opening Day starting pitchers
Pitchers

List of Tampa Bay Rays Opening Day starting pitchers

Section Title: Pitchers
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Season	Pitcher	Decision	Opponent	Location	Ref(s)

1998	Wilson Alvarez	L	Detroit Tigers	Tropicana Field

1999	Wilson Alvarez (2)	L	Baltimore Orioles	Oriole Park at Camden Yards

2000	Steve Trachsel	W	Minnesota Twins	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

2001	Albie Lopez	W	Toronto Blue Jays	Tropicana Field

2002	Tanyon Sturtze	ND (W)	Detroit Tigers	Tropicana Field

2003	Joe Kennedy	ND (W)	Boston Red Sox	Tropicana Field

2004	Victor Zambrano	W	New York Yankees	Tokyo Dome

2005	Dewon Brazelton	L	Toronto Blue Jays	Tropicana Field

2006	Scott Kazmir	ND (L)	Baltimore Orioles	Oriole Park at Camden Yards

2007	Scott Kazmir (2)	L	New York Yankees	Yankee Stadium

2008**	James Shields	W	Baltimore Orioles	Oriole Park at Camden Yards

2009	James Shields (2)	L	Boston Red Sox	Fenway Park

2010*	James Shields (3)	ND (W)	Baltimore Orioles	Tropicana Field

2011*	David Price	L	Baltimore Orioles	Tropicana Field

2012	James Shields (4)	ND (W)	New York Yankees	Tropicana Field

2013*	David Price (2)	ND (L)	Baltimore Orioles	Tropicana Field

2014	David Price (3)	W	Toronto Blue Jays	Tropicana Field

2015	Chris Archer	L	Baltimore Orioles	Tropicana Field

2016	Chris Archer (2)	L	Toronto Blue Jays	Tropicana Field

2017	Chris Archer (3)	W	New York Yankees	Tropicana Field

2018	Chris Archer (4)	ND (W)	Boston Red Sox	Tropicana Field

2019	Blake Snell	L	Houston Astros	Tropicana Field

Sentence(s)

In 2004, the Rays played against the New York Yankees at Tokyo Dome.

final_sentence: In 2004, the Rays played against the New York Yankees at Tokyo Dome.