The Auburn Doubledays minor-league baseball club says the City of Auburn has installed protective netting at the top of the first and third-base dugouts at Falcon Park, where the team plays its home games. Major League Baseball had recommended the netting, and Minor League Baseball endorsed the recommendation. Photo credit: Auburn Doubledays website.
AUBURN, N.Y. — The City of Auburn has installed protective netting at the top of the first and third-base dugouts at Falcon Park where the Auburn Doubledays play their home games.
Major League Baseball (MLB) had recommended the netting last December, the Doubledays said in a news release issued last week.
The Auburn Doubledays of the New York-Penn League are a Single-A, short-season (summertime) affiliate of the MLB’s Washington Nationals, and are getting ready to start their 2016 season this month.
The recommendation — issued at the baseball winter meetings in Nashville, Tennessee — stipulated that teams shield fans from balls and bats in all field-level seats within 70 feet of home plate. Minor League Baseball subsequently endorsed the recommendation, the Doubledays said.
The new forward-facing netting at Falcon Park will shield fans sitting in box-seat sections 102 and 103 on the first-base side and sections 108 and 109 on the third-base side.
In all, the new netting will protect 160 box seats. Both a forward facing and overhead net will protect sections 104 through 107 in Falcon Park, the Doubledays noted.
Season-ticket holders who wish to move their seat location out of or into the sections where the new netting was installed may do so by contacting Nate Deavers in the Doubledays ticket office at (315) 255-2489, the team said.
The Doubledays will open their 2016 season on June 17 at home against the Batavia Muckdogs (a Miami Marlins farm team) at 7:05 p.m.
In 2015, Auburn finished the season with a 36-38 record, good for fourth place in the six-team Pinckney Division of the New York-Penn League, according to the website Baseball-Reference.com. The Doubledays’ season-long attendance last year was 50,670, up 14 percent from 2014, according to the website.
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