Gesa Stadium
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| Former names | Posse Stadium Tri-City Stadium Dust Devils Stadium |
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| Location | 6200 Burden Boulevard Pasco, WA 99301 |
| Owner | City of Pasco |
| Operator | Tri-City Dust Devils |
| Capacity | 3,654 |
| Field size |
Left Field – 335 ft (102 m) Center Field – 400 ft (122 m) Right Field – 335 ft (102 m) |
| Surface | Natural grass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1993 |
| Opened | 1994 |
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Tri-City Dust Devils (NWL) 2001–present Tri-City Posse (WBL) 1995–2000 |
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Gesa Stadium (formerly Dust Devils Stadium) is a Minor League Baseball park in the northwest United States, located in Pasco, Washington. Opened in 1995, it is the home field of the Tri-City Dust Devils of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League (NWL).
The venue opened as "Tri-City Stadium" for the Tri-City Posse, a charter member of the independent Western Baseball League (WBL). After six years, the Posse left after the 2000 season when the NWL Rockies moved up the Columbia River from Portland to become the Tri-City Dust Devils for 2001. (The Rockies moved to make way for a new incarnation of the Beavers in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League.)
It was renamed "Dust Devils Stadium" in 2004 and became Gesa Stadium in 2008, when Gesa Credit Union, a local financial institution, announced that they had purchased the naming rights to the facility for a duration of ten years.
In early 2007, the stadium underwent a renovation, which a 137-foot (42 m) sunshade was constructed on the northwest-side of the stadium behind the right-field stands, to help shade spectators on the left-field stands from the glare of the setting sun. Gesa Stadium has an unorthodox southern alignment, so that fans could have sight of the Kennewick area and the surrounding Horse Heaven Hills, particularly Jump Off Joe Butte. The recommended alignment of a baseball diamond (home plate to center field) is east-northeast.
The elevation of the playing field is approximately 500 feet (150 m) above sea level and is just north of Interstate 182, several miles west of the Tri-Cities Airport.
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