Chase Field is a stadium located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona that is home to the Arizona Diamondbacks MLB team. It opened in 1998 with a retractable roof, making it the first MLB stadium with natural grass and a retractable roof. Construction of the stadium was controversial due to public funding used and cost overruns. The stadium has hosted several MLB playoff games and the 2011 All-Star Game. The retractable roof and advanced cooling system allow games to be played in comfortable conditions despite Phoenix's hot climate.
Chase Field is a stadium located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona that is home to the Arizona Diamondbacks MLB team. It opened in 1998 with a retractable roof, making it the first MLB stadium with natural grass and a retractable roof. Construction of the stadium was controversial due to public funding used and cost overruns. The stadium has hosted several MLB playoff games and the 2011 All-Star Game. The retractable roof and advanced cooling system allow games to be played in comfortable conditions despite Phoenix's hot climate.
Chase Field is a stadium located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona that is home to the Arizona Diamondbacks MLB team. It opened in 1998 with a retractable roof, making it the first MLB stadium with natural grass and a retractable roof. Construction of the stadium was controversial due to public funding used and cost overruns. The stadium has hosted several MLB playoff games and the 2011 All-Star Game. The retractable roof and advanced cooling system allow games to be played in comfortable conditions despite Phoenix's hot climate.
Chase Field is a stadium located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona that is home to the Arizona Diamondbacks MLB team. It opened in 1998 with a retractable roof, making it the first MLB stadium with natural grass and a retractable roof. Construction of the stadium was controversial due to public funding used and cost overruns. The stadium has hosted several MLB playoff games and the 2011 All-Star Game. The retractable roof and advanced cooling system allow games to be played in comfortable conditions despite Phoenix's hot climate.
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Chase Field. Chase Field is a stadium located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona and is the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. It opened in 1998, in time for the Diamondbacks rst game as an expansion team. Chase Field was the rst stadium built in the United States with a retractable roof over a natural-grass playing surface. [7] 1 History The park was built during a wave of new, baseball-only parks in the 1980s and 1990s. Although nearly all of these parks were open-air, it was taken for granted that a domed stadium was a must for a major-league team to be a viable venture in the Phoenix area. Phoenix is by far the hottest major city in North America; the average high temperature during baseballs regular season is 99.1 F (37.3 C), and game-time temperatures well above 100 F (38 C) are very common during the summer. 1.1 Stadium funding furor In the spring of 1994, the Maricopa County Board of Su- pervisors approved a quarter-cent increase in the county sales tax to pay for their portion of the stadium funding. This came about at a time that the county itself was fac- ing huge budget decits and lack of funding for other ser- vices. The sales tax being levied was very unpopular with local citizens, who were not allowed to vote on the issue of funding a baseball stadium with general sales tax revenue (usage of public subsidies for stadium projects was actu- ally prohibited by a 1989 referendum). The issue was so controversial and divisive that in August 1997, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox was shot and in- jured while leaving a county board meeting by Larry Na- man, a homeless man, who attempted to argue in court that her support for the tax justied his attack. In May 1998, Naman was found guilty of attempted rst-degree murder. [8] Costs for the stadium were originally estimated at $279 million in 1995, [9] but cost overruns (in part because of rising prices for steel and other materials) pushed the - nal price to $364 million. [10] As part of the original sta- dium deal, the Diamondbacks were responsible for all construction costs above $253 million. These extra ex- penses, combined with the Diamondbacks and their fel- low expansion franchise, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, not being allowed to share in the national MLB revenue for their rst ve years of operations, left the Diamondbacks in a less-than-desirable nancial situation, which would come back to haunt team founder and managing partner Jerry Colangelo and his group later on. 1.2 1998present Construction on the park began in 1996, and was n- ished just before the Diamondbacks rst season began, in 1998. It was the third MLB stadium to have a retractable roof and the rst in the United States (at the time, only Torontos SkyDome, now Rogers Centre and Montreals Olympic Stadium had them; others are now at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Miller Park in Milwaukee, Safeco Field in Seattle and Marlins Park in Miami). It was also the rst ballpark to feature natural grass in a retractable roof stadium. The stadium hosted Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 of the 2001 World Series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the New York Yankees. The Diamondbacks won all four home games, winning the world championship in seven games, and thus denying the Yankees a fourth consecu- tive championship. It was the rst time since 1991 that the home team won all home games of a World Series. The only other incident was 1987, both by the Minnesota Twins. Chase Field was originally named Bank One Ballpark af- ter Bank One of Chicago, Illinois, giving rise to its nick- name BOB. After Bank One merged with New York- based JPMorgan Chase & Co., the name change was an- nounced on September 23, 2005. In March 2006, Chase Field played host to three rst- round games of the World Baseball Classic. On July 12, 2011, Chase Field was the home to the 2011 All-Star Game. [7] Chase Field also has a swimming pool sponsored by Dodge, located in right-center eld, which is rented to patrons as a suite holding 35 guests for $3,500 per game during the 2011 season. Mark Grace was the rst player to splash a home run into the pool. [11] On September 19, 2013, after clinching the NL West, several members of the Los Angeles Dodgers climbed over the outeld wall and jumped into the pool after being asked by the Dia- mondbacks to not celebrate on the eld after the game. 1 2 3 ROOF AND COOLING SYSTEM The pool at Chase Field as it appeared when it was sponsored by Ride Now Power Sports, current sponsoring is by Dodge. In addition to baseball, the pool has been used by Monster Jams Jim Koehler to continue his tradition of swimming after Freestyle. [12] The ballpark also features a dirt strip between home plate and the pitchers mound, one of only two current ballparks to do so (Comerica Park in Detroit is the other). This dirt strip, sometimes known as the keyhole, was very common in old-time ballparks. The parks foul territory is somewhat larger than is the case for most ballparks built in the 1990s. With 80% of the seats in foul territory, the upper deck is one of the highest in the majors. The parks suites are tucked far under the third deck, which keeps the upper deck closer to the action, with the exception of their Dugout Suites which sit next to the home and visitors dugouts. Before the 2008 season began, a brand new High Def- inition scoreboard was installed beyond center eld, re- placing the original. The new scoreboard is 46 ft (14 m). high and 136 ft (41 m). wide and it cost $14 million. It is the fth largest HD screen in Major League Baseball behind Kauman Stadium. The screen at Kauman is larger by overall area and is square in shape but Chase Fields screen is larger by length and is rectangular. [13][14] The stadium contains 4,400 club seats and 74 suites. The Diamondbacks and St. Louis Cardinals game on April 3, 2013 lasted 16 innings. It was the longest game in Chase Fields 15-year history. [15] 2 Other events The organizers of the Insight.com Bowl elected to move their game from Arizona Stadium in Tucson to Phoenix beginning in 2000, and Chase Field became the games host. In 2006, the bowl game moved to Sun Devil Stadium, to replace the Fiesta Bowl, which moved to University of Phoenix Stadiumin Glendale, Arizona. The football conguration was notable because of the lack of nets behind the goalposts and the dugout behind the south end zone. The nal Insight Bowl played at Chase was be- tween the hometown Arizona State Sun Devils and the Chase Field as viewed from the north Rutgers Scarlet Knights. The stadium also hosts occasional concerts and interna- tional soccer games. For football and soccer, the eld is set up with the end lines perpendicular to the third-base line and temporary bleachers added on the east side. Chase Field has staged nine womens college basketball games. The second game, which was played on Decem- ber 18, 2006, was shortened by rain with four minutes and 18 seconds remaining and Arizona State leading Texas Tech 6145. Venue sta closed the roof in an eort to nish the game, but ocials deemed the court unsafe. In 2000, ASU played Tennessee Volunteers at the same facility. [16] Chase Field was also the site of the Challenge at Chase, a college baseball game between Arizona State and University of Arizona. Arizona won both contests. [17] There has been no game scheduled there since 2008 . [17] In February 2006, the Professional Bull Riders hosted a Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event at this venue. Chris Shivers won this event with a total score of 181.5 points (out of a possible 200) on two bulls, including an impressive 93.75 (out of 100) points on Taylor Made bucking bull, Smokeless Wardance, in the short-go round. During the long-go round, the roof was closed, but during the short-go, the roof was opened. Monster Jam comes to Chase Field every year in late Jan- uary about two weeks after AMA Supercross. 3 Roof and cooling system Chase Fields roof is opened or closed depending on the game-time temperature. When the decision is made to close the roof, it is left open for as long as possible before game time in order to keep the grass alive. Even when closed, the parks design allows just enough sunlight to play in true daylight without overheating the stadium. The roof, which takes just four and a half minutes to open or close at a cost of $2-$3, is closed three hours before game time using two 200-horsepower motors triggered 3 from a control room in the upper deck above left-center eld. [7] Amassive HVACsystemthen drops the tempera- ture inside the park 30 degrees by the time the gates open. The cooling system, which has the power equivalent of cooling 2,500 homes of 2,000 square feet, uses cooled water and is part of the same systemthat serves more than 30 buildings in downtown Phoenix. [7] The cooling plant is located in a separate building right outside the ballpark. [7] Originally, the HVAC system didn't work above row 25 of the upper level, exposing fans in the higher rows to the full force of the often-oppressive heat typical of Arizona summers. Recent changes keep virtually all of the facility in air-conditioned comfort. 4 Transportation Chase Field is served by Westbound METRO Rails Washington at 3rd Street station and Eastbound METRO Rails Jeerson at 3rd Street station. 5 References [1] D. Baxter the Bobcat. Retrieved 14 April 2014. [2] MLB-Stadiums.com: Chase Field. Retrieved 14 April 2014. [3] Red Sox 4 Diamondbacks 3 [4] Chase Field ESPN.com [5] Consumer Price Index (estimate) 18002014. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved February 27, 2014. [6] Ellerbe Becket - Chase Field [7] Dodd, Mike (July 12, 2011). Diamondbacks are experts at keeping heat at bay. USA Today. Retrieved July 21, 2014. [8] ASU.edu [9] Ballpark-Brick Sale to Oset Costs Bizjournals.com [10] D-Backs Expect Skyrocketing Results From BOB Bizjounrals.com [11] Lowry, Philip (2006). Green Cathedrals. Walker &Com- pany. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-8027-1608-8. [12] MonsterJam Results January 29, 2011 [13] Craven, Scott (April 3, 2008). Chase Field Oers D- Backs Fans A High-Def Welcome Back. The Arizona Republic. Retrieved April 4, 2008. [14] Arizona Diamondbacks getting ginormous HD-X display from Daktronics [15] Pennington lifts D'backs over Cards in 16 innings [16] Garcia, Jos E. (December 19, 2006). Sun Devils Brave Elements to Win. The Arizona Republic. Retrieved De- cember 20, 2006. 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