{"id":855953,"date":"2026-09-21T23:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855953\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:06:29","slug":"tigers-renaming-home-ballpark-to-fifth-third-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/855953\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers renaming home ballpark to Fifth Third Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2000, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/detroit-tigers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"detroit-tigers\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> have called Comerica Park home. But in 2027, Detroit&#8217;s home ballpark will undergo an identity change.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers announced Monday that the field will be renamed Fifth Third Park starting next season after Fifth Third Bank acquired Comerica Bank in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit is set to begin its final homestand of 2026 on Monday, as it welcomes the Washington Nationals to Comerica for a three-game set before the Pittsburgh Pirates come to town to close out the season over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Comerica&#8217;s naming rights for the park were extended through 2034 in 2018 and will carry over to Fifth Third.<\/p>\n<p>Only nine major-league teams have played in their home parks without a name change other than the Tigers at Comerica Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/tigers-ballpark-name-changed-to-fifth-third-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per MLB.com:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Baltimore Orioles (Oriole Park at Camden Yards)<br \/>Boston Red Sox (Fenway Park)<br \/>Chicago Cubs (Wrigley Field)<br \/>Colorado Rockies (Coors Field)<br \/>Kansas City Royals (Kauffman Stadium)<br \/>Los Angeles Angels (Angel Stadium)<br \/>Los Angeles Dodgers (Dodger Stadium)<br \/>Pittsburgh Pirates (PNC Park)<br \/>Tampa Bay Rays (Tropicana Field)<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers&#8217; first game at Fifth Third Park will come on March 25 against the Chicago White Sox as the AL Central foes kick off the 2027 season with a three-game series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2000, the Detroit Tigers have called Comerica Park home. But in 2027, Detroit&#8217;s home ballpark will undergo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-855953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855953","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=855953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}