Tidbits About The Stadium
- Because of the location, Metro Bank Park is prone to being flooded, and a previous stadium at the site was washed out by a flood back in 1935. Floods in the winter do not pose as much of a problem, as the ballpark can be fixed up, and ready for the next season, but floods that happen during the baseball season can (and usually will) affect the Senators schedule, forcing them to play their "home games" usually at their opponent's ballpark. The most recent episode of this happening was in the 2006 season when a flood partially submerged the field, and forced the Senators to play 2 "home games" as a doubleheader in Bowie against the Bowie Baysox.
- The record attendance to a Senators game at Metro Bank Park is 8,637, on September 1, 2011. The crowd was bolstered by a rehab start for Stephen Strasburg and the Senators' clinching of the division title.
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Famous quotes containing the word stadium:
“It’s no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the Yankee Stadium of ancient times.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)