{"id":555371,"date":"2026-03-31T02:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/555371\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T02:57:10","slug":"new-ribbon-boards-cause-view-issues-at-d-backs-chase-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/555371\/","title":{"rendered":"New ribbon boards cause view issues at D-backs&#8217; Chase Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 30, 2026, 10:02 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX &#8212; A set of new ribbon boards at the home of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/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 would 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\/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":"Mar 30, 2026, 10:02 PM ET PHOENIX &#8212; A set of new ribbon boards at the home of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-555371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}