{"id":575386,"date":"2026-03-31T02:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575386\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:14:08","slug":"new-ribbon-boards-cause-view-issues-at-d-backs-chase-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/575386\/","title":{"rendered":"New ribbon boards cause view issues at D-backs&#8217; Chase Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX &#8212; A set of brand-new ribbon boards at the home of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> has caused partially obstructed views of the playing field for dozens of seats at Chase Field, and the team said it will relocate unhappy ticket holders.<\/p>\n<p>The boards &#8212; which circle the field and were installed as part of an offseason upgrade for a facility that&#8217;s nearly 30 years old &#8212; have mainly affected the view from the front row of the upper deck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are well aware that the view has changed for ticket holders in the first row and are also not happy about it,&#8221; D-backs CEO Derrick Hall said in a statement. &#8220;We are working closely with them to relocate to an acceptable location. For some fans, the seats may be a partially obstructed view, but I clearly understand they previously were not and apologize. We had a similar situation years ago on the suite level when we first built its ribbon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some press box seats were also partially obstructed, meaning the D-backs had to relocate the game operations crew before Monday night&#8217;s home opener against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a>. The crew includes the official scorer, pitch clock operator and the person who runs the Automated Ball-Strike system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8212; A set of brand-new ribbon boards at the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks has caused partially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-575386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}