Friday was the 24th American League Championship Series game played inside.
The ALCS has gone indoors on nine occasions.
The team that played in the dome had the homefield advantage five times, including 1991 when the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays played in an all-indoor ALCS.
The dome field was not an advantage in half of those other four series.
The Anaheim Angels defeated Minnesota in five games in 2002, and the Cleveland Indians beat the Seattle Mariners in six games in 1995, winning the decisive sixth game at the Kingdome.
The Rays have homefield advantage in this ALCS.
Stat of the day
62: Percentage of time the team that won Game 1 of the ALCS has gone on to win the series.
Young guns
The Rays have the ninth-youngest rotation to reach the postseason in major league history.
The youngest was the 1966 Baltimore Orioles quartet of Dave McNally (230, Jim Palmer (20), Wally Bunker (21) and Steve Barber (27).
Those four unseated the 1916 Boston Red Sox rotation of Babe Ruth (21), Dutch Leonard (24), Carl Mays (24) and Ernie Shore (25).
The Rays, for those scoring at home, are James Shields (26), Scott Kazmir (24), Matt Garza (24), Edwin Jackson (24) and Andy Sonnanstine (25).
The Rays have gone 279 games since they had a pitcher at least 30 start a game. That was Jae Seo on May 24, 2007.
Here's the pitch
Make sure you watch Dick Vitale as he throws out the first pitch before tonight's Game 2.
"I'm going to be so nervous, I hope I don't embarrass myself," Vitale said.
ESPN's voice of college basketball, who was recently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, will wear a Rays jersey complete with his name on the back.
No matter how poorly he throws the ball, Vitale can rest assured there have been a lot worse pitches thrown by people wearing Rays jerseys. Some of them were Rays pitchers.
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