Current MLB ballpark · 2003 – present

Great American Ball Park

Cincinnati, OH

Opened: 2003
Capacity: 43,891
Surface: Grass
Roof: Open
League: NL
Elevation: 535 ft
Orientation: 122° (ESE)
Time zone: America/New_York

How it plays

Every number is an index where 100 is league average. There is no such thing as one park factor — this park does different things to a triple than it does to a home run, and the only honest version is the whole row. Off 15,548 plate appearances in 2026.

	2026	2024-2026
Runs	98	102
Home runs	107	114
Triples	113	80
Doubles	86	99
Singles	89	94
Walks	121	110
Strikeouts	108	104
Value on contact	99	102
Expected on contact	104	100

How much of this is the park? Across 2022–2026, this venue's single-season value-on-contact index moved by ±3.7 points (a 10-point spread over 5 seasons). The league median is 3.0. Read a single season's figure with that much slack in it — the walls do not move, and the number does.

By the batter's side

Runs	92 RHB	106 LHB
Home runs	103 RHB	114 LHB
Value on contact	95 RHB	105 LHB

9,205 right-handed and 6,343 left-handed plate appearances — each side is half a season, so read these with at least the slack the combined figures carry — the band above is ±3.7 on twice this sample.

What FVR does about it

Every luck gap we measure at this park has −0.0107 subtracted from it, off 3,373 balls in play here this season. That is the number behind every board on this site, which is the only reason it is printed. It is not on the 100-is-average scale above: it is value on contact per ball in play, so it cannot be added to or subtracted from any index in this table. The two can even point opposite ways — Savant's runs index counts all offense, ours is only the residual against what the batted balls deserved.

Index figures: Baseball Savant, single-season and three-year rolling. What a park factor is, and is not →

The lore

The Gap

A downtown lot squeezed a ballpark into shape — and left a 35-foot window cut into the stands.

The Gap

The ballpark is wedged into downtown Cincinnati next to Interstate 71, and the squeeze left a mark. A 35-foot-wide break in the stands runs between home plate and third base, aligned with Sycamore Street, opening a sightline from the city into the stadium. The architectural firms HOK Sport — now Populous — and GBBN needed separation between the upper decks on the third-base side to fit the building on its lot. The Gap is what the site demanded.

The outfield, 328 feet down the left-field line with a 12-foot wall and 325 to right with an 8-foot wall, closely mimics the dimensions of Riverfront Stadium, the Reds' home from 1970 to 2002 that this park replaced when it opened on March 31, 2003. Two smokestacks rise in right-center, built to evoke 19th-century Ohio River steamboats. They fire after Reds strikeouts and launch fireworks after home runs and wins. The place developed its own reputation, too. Some have speculated that wind patterns moving through The Gap help push baseballs toward right field. Through the 2020 season, the park had surrendered a Major League-leading 3,713 home runs.

For more than a decade after opening day, no pitcher threw a no-hitter here. Homer Bailey broke through on July 2, 2013, blanking the San Francisco Giants 3-0. Three years later, on April 21, 2016, the Cubs' Jake Arrieta no-hit the Reds 16-0 — the most lopsided no-hitter in the major leagues since 1884. Those remain the only two the park has seen.

After pitcher and broadcaster Joe Nuxhall died in 2007, the address was changed to 100 Joe Nuxhall Way. The 2026 season is the 24th at Great American Ball Park, and the Cincinnati Reds have called it home since the day it opened.

Reporting: MLB.com, Wikipedia. Park data: MLB StatsAPI and Retrosheet, via the Fever engine.

By the Desk · filed 2026-07-24 — the piece reads as of its filing; the park record around it is live · every fact in this piece comes from a filed, sourced research pack and clears an independent fact-check, and nothing is edited after filing.

The dimensions

Fence distances from home plate, in feet — the same venue.fieldInfo the scorecards draw their hit charts on.

Left field line	328′
Left-center	379′
Center field	404′
Right-center	370′
Right field line	325′

Home club

CIN Cincinnati Reds

Games we’ve scored here

74 games at this park in our books — every one transcribed mark for mark, reconciled to the official line. The most recent:

…and 62 more in the scorecard archive.

Where it stands

100 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202-4109. Open the map →

Sources

MLB StatsAPI · as of 2026-07-23
Retrosheet · as of 2026-07-23

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