Nationals Park

Location: Washington, Maryland, USA
Capacity: 41,339
Record Crowd: 45,966, October 12, 2012 vs (Cardinals)
Home Team: Washington Nationals

Nationals Park is a baseball park along the Anacostia River in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is the home ballpark for the Washington Nationals of the Major League Baseball. When the Montreal Expos franchise relocated to Washington, D.C., and became the Nationals, they temporarily played at RFK Stadium until Nationals Park was completed. It is the first LEED-certified green major professional sports stadium in the United States.

The ballpark, designed by HOK Sport and Devrouax & Purnell Architects and Planners, cost $693 million to build, with an additional $84.2 million spent on transportation, art, and infrastructure upgrades to support the stadium for a total cost of $783.9 million. The stadium has a capacity of 41,339. The Washington Monument and the Capitol building are visible from the upper decks on the first base side of the field.

The park’s name echoes that of the early-1900s ballpark used by the Washington Senators, National Park until it was rebuilt and renamed Griffith Stadium. The stadium features 79 suites on three levels, all around the infield. There is also an out-of-town scoreboard, which is 31 m (102 feet) long, installed in the right field wall. The main scoreboard, at 31 m (101 feet) long and 14 m (47 feet) high, is more than five times the size of the one at RFK Stadium.