There is parking available for 14, cars and buses plus a helipad. All second deck outfield seats are covered by canvas and are not used for baseball. The second deck is completely closed off when the Marlins anticipate low attendance, which is most of the time. The outfield wall has many nooks and crannies that make for interesting bounces and tough angles for outfielders.
The left-field wall is called the "Teal Monster. A walk-off single by Edgar Renteria sent the crowd home happy. Outside of baseball, Land Shark Stadium had many events. Five Super Bowls have taken place at the site as well.
The photo is from Getty. I do not own this picture. Skip to content. Where is Sun Life Stadium Located? Located directly off of the Florida turnpike, it's the only stadium I've ever had to pay a toll just to get into. That's a dollar on the way in, and a dollar on the way out. Since the stadium is in isolation by itself, the Marlins have a monopoly on parking.
There are no "gypsy" lots around as the team controls all of the parking lots. And I hear it is much, much higher for Dolphins games. Inside the stadium programs weren't easy to find, but were inexpensive once I did get one. There were a couple banks of TV sets sponsored by Direct TV that came in very handy during the rain delay, enabling fans in the concourse to watch up to 9 baseball games or sports news. Sun Life is an open-air facility in the truest sense, since it doesn't have any grandstand roofs or overhangs like every other ballpark I've ever seen.
So if you want to stay dry during the rain delays you have to go to the concourses. Although I wasn't very impressed with Sun Life Stadium as a ballpark in my sole visit to it in , I came away very impressed with the passion of the crowd. The Dolphins may get most of the admiration from the community at large, but the Marlins have gone after a fan base that the football team probably ignores. I'll bet if you compare the diehard Dolphins fan to the diehard Marlins fan you'd get two entirely different people.
But when you compare the success of the Dolphins at Sun Life Stadium to that of the Marlins since their inception in , only one has won a championship, and while the Dolphins, Panthers and Heat all have new venues, it's the Marlins that have been forced to play in a football stadium that, like the sign out front says, is the home of the Miami Dolphins Or more precisely, in a new ballpark on the site of where the Orange Bowl stood until , when it was demolished piece by piece over the course of 72 days.
Construction began on December 1, , which was the date of the official groundbreaking ceremony. In order to accommodate baseball several changes were made at Sun Life Stadium. On April 5, , the Florida Marlins played their first game at the stadium.
Three main levels, consisting of 75, orange and teal seats surrounded the playing field. The majority of the seats in the upper deck, except behind homeplate were closed for baseball, giving Sun Life Stadium a seating capacity of just over 36, At various times throughout the Marlins tenure at Sun Life Stadium tarps have covered many of the upper decks to lessen the effect of having empty seats during the baseball season.
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