Marlins Park Roof Open Tonight
The roof will be open tonight for our 4th game in a row matching a marlinspark record.
Marlins park roof open tonight. Any item that could affect the safety of marlins park guests staff property will be denied entry. Follow marlinspark on twitter for daily updates on roof openings and closings. 560 foot span track to track just short of two football fields in length or roughly 5 27 acres. The marlins use a formula dealing with the humidity and the chance of rain deciding whether the roof will be open or closed.
On opening night april 4 2012 the miami marlins opened up marlins park officially to the public. Marlins park has a retractable roof and the miami marlins are aiming to open it whenever possible this season. The logic is that it s better for the fan experience weather permitting. They also said marlins players.
The game ball was delivered by muhammed ali and the anthem was sung by jose feliciano. Fans should be prepared to open their bags for inspection and may be asked by security staff to shift and possibly remove the contents. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. The roof will be opened for tonight s interleague matchup against the red sox.
Prior to marlins home games guests can learn whether the roof will be open or closed by visiting the marlinspark twitter account. It takes roughly 13 15 minutes to go from the fully closed to the fully open position. Yesterday being opening day the marlins did not want the roof closed. They were hoping it was a passing 3 minute shower which miami is infamous for but it backfired on them.
Will have a separate story on this a bit later but nationals players were extremely unhappy with the roof being open today at marlins park because of the shadows.