Current MLB ballpark · 1962 – present
UNIQLO Field at Dodger Stadium
Los Angeles, CA
Also known as Chavez Ravine.
- Opened
- 1962
- Capacity
- 56,000
- Surface
- Grass
- Roof
- Open
- League
- NL
- Elevation
- 515 ft
- Orientation
- 26° (NNE)
- Time zone
- America/Los_Angeles
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 14,863 plate appearances in 2026.
| 2026 | 2024-2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs | 94 | 102 |
| Home runs | 109 | 124 |
| Triples | 39 | 63 |
| Doubles | 94 | 94 |
| Singles | 95 | 94 |
| Walks | 99 | 102 |
| Strikeouts | 108 | 101 |
| Value on contact | 99 | 101 |
| Expected on contact | 100 | 102 |
How much of this is the park? Across 2022–2026, this venue's single-season value-on-contact index moved by ±3.1 points (a 7-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 | 102 RHB | 88 LHB |
| Home runs | 111 RHB | 107 LHB |
| Value on contact | 102 RHB | 97 LHB |
7,319 right-handed and 7,543 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 ±3.1 on twice this sample.
What FVR does about it
Every luck gap we measure at this park has −0.0126 subtracted from it, off 3,444 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
Carved Into the Ravine
The ballpark built into a Chavez Ravine hillside, where 21 terraced entrances meet 65 seasons of baseball.
Carved Into the Hill
The land came first. In 1957, after a stadium deal in Brooklyn fell through, the city of Los Angeles gave the Dodgers the Chavez Ravine parcel in exchange for the deed to Wrigley Field and a commitment to build a 50,000-seat park. What they built opened on April 10, 1962 — the first privately financed Major League ballpark since 1923 — and the 2026 season is its 65th of baseball.
Engineer Emil Praeger and Los Angeles architect Edward Fickett carved the structure into the Chavez Ravine hillside so that each of its 21 terraced entrances sits at grade from the top deck down to the field level. The address is 1000 Elysian Park Avenue — Elysian meaning paradise — ringed by Elysian Park, with downtown Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Mountains beyond the outfield. A 10-story elevator shaft bearing the Dodgers logo rises behind home plate atop the upper deck, the most visible landmark in the place.
What Opening Day Forgot
The park debuted with two gaffes. Praeger had left water fountains out of the design entirely, and the foul poles were placed in foul ground. The National League ruled the poles fair for the season, and in 1963 the Dodgers shifted home plate slightly so each pole sat fair on its own. The dimensions today read 330 down both lines, 385 in the power alleys, and 395 to center — balanced and deep, at 515 feet of elevation.
What the Park Held
Sandy Koufax threw a perfect game here in 1965, one of four no-hitters in his career. Fernandomania took the stands in 1981, when Fernando Valenzuela drew enormous crowds and the Dodgers won the World Series. Kirk Gibson's pinch-hit walk-off in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series is the moment most people reach for first. The Dodgers drew 3 million fans in a season here before any other MLB team did, in 1978, and drew 3.85 million in 2007 — a franchise record at the time, since passed. Beyond baseball, the stadium has held a Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II, the 1984 Olympic baseball competition, and concerts by The Beatles, Michael Jackson, and U2.
The Dodgers still play here. The 2026 season is the 65th at 1000 Elysian Park Avenue, and the foul poles have been fair since 1963.
Reporting: SABR, Los Angeles Dodgers. 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 | 330′ |
| Left-center | 385′ |
| Center field | 395′ |
| Right-center | 385′ |
| Right field line | 330′ |
Home club
Games we’ve scored here
71 games at this park in our books — every one transcribed mark for mark, reconciled to the official line. The most recent:
- 2026-09-05WSH 5 – 6 LAD
- 2026-09-04WSH 3 – 5 LAD
- 2026-09-03STL 2 – 3 LAD
- 2026-09-02STL 8 – 6 LAD
- 2026-09-01STL 13 – 8 LAD
- 2026-08-23PIT 0 – 4 LAD
- 2026-08-22PIT 3 – 4 LAD
- 2026-08-21PIT 4 – 5 LAD
- 2026-08-16MIL 6 – 2 LAD
- 2026-08-15MIL 4 – 1 LAD
- 2026-08-14MIL 1 – 3 LAD
- 2026-08-13MIL 5 – 4 LAD
…and 59 more in the scorecard archive.
Where it stands
1000 Vin Scully Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012-1199. Open the map →
From the record
LAN:1962-prsnt; LAA:1962-9/2/65; CAL:9/2to9/22/65
Retrosheet park LOS03 · first game 4/10/1962
Sources
- MLB StatsAPI · as of 2026-07-23
- Retrosheet · as of 2026-07-23
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