Chase Field - wikipedia Chase Field For the former military base, see Naval Air Station Chase Field. For the Magnapop album, see Chase Park. Chase Field The BOB, The Snake Pit, The Aircraft Hangar 2011 All - Star Game festivities Former names Bank One Ballpark ( 1998 -- 2005 ) Address 401 East Jefferson Street Location Phoenix, Arizona Coordinates 33 ° 26 ′ 43 '' N 112 ° 4 ′ 1 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 33.44528 ° N 112.06694 ° W ﻿ / 33.44528 ; - 112.06694 Coordinates : 33 ° 26 ′ 43 '' N 112 ° 4 ′ 1 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 33.44528 ° N 112.06694 ° W ﻿ / 33.44528 ; - 112.06694 Public transit Convention Center Owner Maricopa County Stadium District Operator SMG Capacity 48,686 ( 2017 -- present ) 48,519 ( 2015 -- 2016 ) 48,633 ( 2011 -- 2014 ) 48,652 ( 2009 -- 2010 ) 48,711 ( 2008 ) 49,033 ( 2002 -- 2007 ) 48,500 ( 1998 -- 2001 ) Record attendance 49,826 ( June 9, 2007 ) Field size Left Field -- 330 ft ( 101 m ) Left - Center -- 374 ft ( 114 m ) Left - Center ( deep ) -- 413 ft ( 126 m ) Center Field -- 407 ft ( 124 m ) Right - Center ( deep ) -- 413 ft ( 126 m ) Right - Center -- 374 ft ( 114 m ) Right Field -- 334 ft ( 102 m ) Surface Bull 's Eye Bermuda Construction Broke ground November 16, 1995 Opened March 31, 1998 19 years ago Construction cost $ 354 million ( $520 million in 2016 dollars ) Architect Ellerbe Becket Wyatt / Rhodes Castillo Company Cox James Project manager Huber, Hunt & Nichols Inc. Structural engineer Hatch Associates Ltd. Martin / Martin Services engineer M-E Engineers Inc. General contractor Perini / McCarthy Main contractors Schuff Steel Company Tenants Arizona Diamondbacks ( MLB ) ( 1998 -- present ) Cactus Bowl ( NCAA ) ( 2000 -- 2005, 2016 -- present ) Chase Field, formerly Bank One Ballpark, is a baseball park located in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona. It is the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the city 's Major League Baseball ( MLB ) franchise. It opened in 1998, in time for the Diamondbacks ' first game as an expansion team. Chase Field was the first stadium built in the United States with a retractable roof over a natural - grass playing surface. Contents 1 History 1.1 Stadium funding furor 1.2 1998 -- present 2 Other events 3 Roof and cooling system 4 Transportation 5 References 6 External links History The park was built during a wave of new, baseball - only parks in the 1990s. Although nearly all of these parks were open - air, it was taken for granted that a domed stadium was a must for a major - league team to be a viable venture in the Phoenix area. Phoenix is by far the hottest major city in North America ; the average high temperature during baseball 's regular season is 99.1 ° F ( 37.3 ° C ), and game - time temperatures well above 100 ° F ( 38 ° C ) are very common during the summer. Stadium funding furor In the spring of 1994, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved a quarter percentage point increase in the county sales tax to pay for their portion of the stadium funding. This came about at a time that the county itself was facing huge budget deficits and lack of funding for other services. The sales tax being levied was very unpopular with local citizens, who were not allowed to vote on the issue of funding a baseball stadium with general sales tax revenue ( usage of public subsidies for stadium projects was actually prohibited by a 1989 referendum ). The issue was so controversial and divisive that in August 1997, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox was shot and injured while leaving a county board meeting by Larry Naman, a homeless man, who attempted to argue in court that her support for the tax justified his attack. In May 1998, Naman was found guilty of attempted first - degree murder. Costs for the stadium were originally estimated at $279 million in 1995, but cost overruns ( in part because of rising prices for steel and other materials ) pushed the final price to $364 million. As part of the original stadium deal, the Diamondbacks were responsible for all construction costs above $253 million. These extra expenses, combined with the Diamondbacks and their fellow expansion franchise, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, not being allowed to share in the national MLB revenue for their first 5 years of operations, left the Diamondbacks in a less - than - desirable financial situation, which would come back to haunt team founder and managing partner Jerry Colangelo and his group later on. 1998 -- present Panoramic of Diamondbacks vs. Rockies game July 2, 2017 Construction on the park began in 1996, and was finished just before the Diamondbacks ' first season began, in 1998. It was the third MLB stadium to have a retractable roof and the first in the United States ( at the time, only Toronto 's SkyDome, now Rogers Centre and Montreal 's Olympic Stadium had them ; others are now at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Miller Park in Milwaukee, Safeco Field in Seattle and Marlins Park in Miami ). It was also the first ballpark to feature natural grass in a retractable roof stadium. The stadium hosted Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 of the 2001 World Series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the New York Yankees. The Diamondbacks won all four home games, winning the world championship in seven games, and thus denying the Yankees a fourth consecutive championship. It was the first time since 1991 that the home team won all home games of a World Series. The only other incident was 1987, both by the Minnesota Twins. Chase Field was originally named Bank One Ballpark after Bank One of Chicago, Illinois, giving rise to its nickname `` BOB ''. After Bank One merged with New York - based JPMorgan Chase & Co., the name change was announced on September 23, 2005. In March 2006, Chase Field played host to three first - round games of the World Baseball Classic. Chase Field hosted the Major League Baseball All - Star Game in 2011. Chase Field will host the 2017 National League Wild Card Game. The pool at Chase Field as it appeared when it was sponsored by Ride Now Power Sports, current sponsoring is by Dodge. Chase Field also has a swimming pool sponsored by Dodge, located in right - center field, which is rented to patrons as a suite holding 35 guests for $3,500 per game during the 2011 season. Mark Grace was the first player to `` splash '' a home run into the pool. On September 19, 2013, after clinching the NL West, several members of the Los Angeles Dodgers climbed over the outfield wall and jumped into the pool after being asked by the Diamondbacks to not celebrate on the field after the game. In addition to baseball, the pool has been used by Monster Jam 's Jim Koehler to continue his tradition of swimming after Freestyle. The ballpark also features a dirt strip between home plate and the pitcher 's mound, one of only two current ballparks to do so ( Comerica Park in Detroit is the other ). This dirt strip, sometimes known as the `` keyhole '', was very common in old - time ballparks. The park 's foul territory is somewhat larger than is the case for most ballparks built in the 1990s. With 80 % of the seats in foul territory, the upper deck is one of the highest in the majors. The park 's suites are tucked far under the third deck, which keeps the upper deck closer to the action, with the exception of their Dugout Suites which sit next to the home and visitor 's dugouts. Before the 2008 season began, a brand new High Definition scoreboard was installed beyond center field, replacing the original. The new scoreboard is 46 ft ( 14 m ) high and 136 ft ( 41 m ) wide and it cost $14 million. It is the fifth largest HD screen in Major League Baseball behind Kauffman Stadium. The screen at Kauffman is larger by overall area and is square in shape but Chase Field 's screen is larger by length and is rectangular. Premium seating includes 4,400 club seats, 57 suites, 6 party suites, Executive suite, batters box suite, two dugout suites, and the Ramtrucks.com Party Pool. The Diamondbacks and St. Louis Cardinals game on April 3, 2013 lasted 16 innings. It was the longest game in Chase Field 's 17 - year history. Other events Chase Field as viewed from the north The organizers of the Insight.com Bowl elected to move their game from Arizona Stadium in Tucson to Phoenix beginning in 2000, and Chase Field became the game 's host. In 2006, the bowl game moved to Sun Devil Stadium, to replace the Fiesta Bowl, which moved to University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The football configuration was notable because of the lack of nets behind the goalposts and the dugout behind the south end zone. The final Insight Bowl played at Chase was between the hometown Arizona State Sun Devils and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. The bowl, now known as the Cactus Bowl, returned to Chase Field in January 2016. The stadium also hosts occasional concerts and international soccer games. For football and soccer, the field is set up with the end lines perpendicular to the third - base line and temporary bleachers added on the east side. Chase Field has staged nine women 's college basketball games. The second game, which was played on December 18, 2006, was shortened by rain with four minutes and 18 seconds remaining and Arizona State leading Texas Tech 61 -- 45. Venue staff closed the roof in an effort to finish the game, but officials deemed the court unsafe. In 2000, ASU played the Tennessee Volunteers at the same facility. Chase Field was also the site of the `` Challenge at Chase '', a college baseball game between Arizona State and University of Arizona. Arizona won both contests. There has been no game scheduled there since 2008. In February 2006, the Professional Bull Riders hosted a Built Ford Tough Series bull riding event at this venue. Chris Shivers won this event with a total score of 181.5 points ( out of a possible 200 ) on two bulls, including an impressive 93.75 ( out of 100 ) points on Taylor Made bucking bull, Smokeless Wardance, in the short - go round. During the long - go round, the roof was closed, but during the short - go, the roof was opened. The stadium has hosted Monster Energy Supercross rounds from 1999 to 2015. Monster Jam came to Chase Field every year in late January about two weeks after Monster Energy Supercross. Both events moved to the University of Phoenix Stadium in 2016. Roof and cooling system Chase Field 's roof is opened or closed depending on the game - time temperature. When the decision is made to close the roof, it is left open for as long as possible before game time in order to keep the grass growing. Even when the roof is closed, the park 's windows allow enough sunlight to play in true daylight without overheating the stadium. The roof, which takes just 41⁄2 minutes to open or close at a cost of $2 -- $3, is closed three hours before game time using two 200 - horsepower motors triggered from a control room in the upper deck above left - center field. A massive HVAC system then drops the temperature inside the park 30 ° by the time the gates open. The cooling system, which has the power equivalent of cooling 2,500 homes of 2,000 square feet, uses chilled water and is part of the same system that serves more than 30 buildings in downtown Phoenix. The cooling plant is located in a separate building right outside the ballpark. Originally, the HVAC system did n't work above row 25 of the upper level, exposing fans in the higher rows to the full force of the often - oppressive heat typical of Arizona summers. Recent changes keep virtually all of the facility in air - conditioned comfort. Transportation Chase Field is served by Westbound METRO Rail 's Washington at 3rd Street station and Eastbound METRO Rail 's Jefferson at 3rd Street station. References Jump up ^ `` D. Baxter the Bobcat ''. Major League Baseball Advanced Media. Retrieved April 14, 2014. Jump up ^ `` AllVenueTickets ''. Archived from the original on November 19, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014. Jump up ^ `` MLB-Stadiums.com : Chase Field ''. Retrieved April 14, 2014. Jump up ^ O'Connell, Patrick ( March 21, 2017 ). 2017 Arizona Diamondbacks Media Guide. Major League Baseball Advanced Media. p. 12. Jump up ^ Red Sox 4 Diamondbacks 3 Jump up ^ Chase Field ESPN.com Jump up ^ Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Project. `` Consumer Price Index ( estimate ) 1800 -- ''. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved January 2, 2017. ^ Jump up to : Ellerbe Becket - Chase Field Archived March 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. ^ Jump up to : Dodd, Mike ( July 12, 2011 ). `` Diamondbacks Are Experts at Keeping Heat at Bay ''. USA Today. Retrieved July 21, 2014. Jump up ^ ASU.edu Archived August 4, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ Ballpark - Brick Sale to Offset Costs Bizjournals.com Jump up ^ D - Backs Expect Skyrocketing Results From BOB Bizjounrals.com Jump up ^ Lowry, Philip ( 2006 ). Green Cathedrals. Walker & Company. p. 182. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8027 - 1608 - 8. Jump up ^ MonsterJam Results January 29, 2011 Jump up ^ Craven, Scott ( April 3, 2008 ). `` Chase Field Offers D - Backs Fans A High - Def Welcome Back ''. The Arizona Republic. Retrieved April 4, 2008. Jump up ^ Arizona Diamondbacks getting ginormous HD - X display from Daktronics Archived May 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ Pennington lifts D'backs over Cards in 16 innings Jump up ^ Garcia, José E. ( December 19, 2006 ). `` Sun Devils Brave Elements to Win ''. The Arizona Republic. Retrieved December 20, 2006. ^ Jump up to : Baseball : : The Arizona State University Sun Devils -- Official Athletic Site Archived February 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ 2015 AMA Supercross media guide Jump up ^ http://home.utah.edu/~u0511816/chase_history.html. Missing or empty title = ( help ) External links Arizona portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chase Field. Stadium site on dbacks.com Official Site Stadium picture Chase Field Page at S&E News Chase Field Seating Chart Events and tenants Preceded by None Home of the Arizona Diamondbacks 1998 -- present Succeeded by Current Preceded by Arizona Stadium Home of the Insight Bowl 2001 -- 2005 Succeeded by Sun Devil Stadium Preceded by Angel Stadium of Anaheim Host of the Major League Baseball All - Star Game 2011 Succeeded by Kauffman Stadium Arizona Diamondbacks Based in Phoenix, Arizona Franchise History Expansion Expansion Draft Records No - hitters Players Owners and executives Managers Broadcasters Seasons Opening Day starters First - round draft picks Ballparks Chase Field Spring training : Tucson Electric Park Salt River Fields at Talking Stick Culture D. Baxter the Bobcat D - backs Luchador The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty Randy Johnson 's perfect game Key personnel Owner : Ken Kendrick President and CEO : Derrick Hall General Manager : Mike Hazen Manager : Torey Lovullo World Series Championships ( 1 ) 2001 National League Pennants ( 1 ) 2001 NL West Division Championships ( 5 ) 1999 2001 2002 2007 2011 Wild card berths ( 1 ) 2017 Minor league affiliates AAA : Reno Aces AA : Jackson Generals A Adv. : Visalia Rawhide A : Kane County Cougars Short A : Hillsboro Hops Rookie Adv : Missoula Osprey Rookie : AZL Diamondbacks DSL D - backs Other assets Hall of Fame Racing Seasons ( 20 ) 1990s 1998 1999 2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010s 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Current ballparks in Major League Baseball American League East Fenway Park Oriole Park at Camden Yards Rogers Centre Tropicana Field Yankee Stadium Central Comerica Park Guaranteed Rate Field Kauffman Stadium Progressive Field Target Field West Angel Stadium of Anaheim Globe Life Park in Arlington Minute Maid Park Oakland -- Alameda County Coliseum Safeco Field National League East Citi Field Citizens Bank Park Marlins Park Nationals Park SunTrust Park Central Busch Stadium Great American Ball Park Miller Park PNC Park Wrigley Field West AT&T Park Chase Field Coors Field Dodger Stadium Petco Park 2006 World Baseball Classic Stadiums Tokyo Dome ( Tokyo ) Chase Field ( Phoenix ) Scottsdale Stadium ( Scottsdale ) Hiram Bithorn Stadium ( San Juan ) Cracker Jack Stadium ( Lake Buena Vista, FL ) Angel Stadium of Anaheim ( Anaheim ) Petco Park ( San Diego ) 2013 World Baseball Classic Stadiums Fukuoka Dome ( Fukuoka ) Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium ( Taichung ) Hiram Bithorn Stadium ( San Juan ) Chase Field ( Phoenix ) Salt River Fields at Talking Stick ( Scottsdale ) Tokyo Dome ( Tokyo ) Marlins Park ( Miami ) AT&T Park ( San Francisco ) Music venues of Arizona Outdoor venues Ak - Chin Pavilion AVA Amphitheater Chase Field Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium Mesa Amphitheatre Pool at Talking Stick Resort Salt River Fields Sun Bowl Amphitheatre Sun Devil Stadium University of Phoenix Stadium Theaters and clubs Celebrity Theatre Chandler Center for the Arts Club Congress Comerica Theatre Fox Tucson Theatre Gammage Memorial Auditorium Marquee Theatre The Mason Jar Mesa Arts Center Modified Arts Orpheum Theater ( Flagstaff, Arizona ) Orpheum Theatre ( Phoenix ) Phoenix Symphony Hall Rialto Theatre Rhythm Room Safford Center for the Arts Showroom at Talking Stick Resort Skrappys Trunk Space Tempe Center for the Arts Tucson Music Hall Arenas Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum Equidome Arena GCU Arena Gila River Arena Mojave Crossing Prescott Valley Event Center Talking Stick Resort Arena Tucson Arena Walkup Skydome Wells Fargo Arena Historic venues Long Wong 's Paper Heart Gallery JPMorgan Chase Divisions J.P. 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Question: when do they close the roof at chase field
Answer: depending on the game-time temperature