Ballpark of the Palm Beaches

Main entrance to the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, Aug-2019.

The seating bowl, from down the left-field line.

Looking straight out from the concourse behind home plate.

Chronological Tour: Stop 414

• Location: Haverhill Road south of 45th Street, West Palm Beach, Fla. (map it using Google Maps)
• Opened: 2017
• Home team: Spring training, Houston Astros, Washington Nationals (2017-present)
• Capacity: 7,858 (6,500 fixed seats)

Rating: 3 baseballs

The complex, opened in 2017 as a joint venture between the Astros and Nationals, replaced both Space Coast Stadium near Melbourne and Osceola County Stadium near Kissimmee as spring training sites. The former is now a youth baseball and softball complex, while the latter is being turned into a soccer complex.

Since their move to Palm Beach County, both clubs have had significant success on the major league level. The Astros, who were rising from the ashes of a major rebuild, won the Major League Baseball championship in 2017, the first year the park was open. Two years later, the Nationals defeated the Astros for the title.

While the stadium is handsome, nothing makes it particularly stand out, with the possible exception of the large logos outside the park. These have been echoed by the Atlanta Braves at their new field in North Port that opened in 2019.

In 2021, this ballpark, along with Clover Park in Port St. Lucie, hosted the Americas qualifier for the Olympic demonstration event in Tokyo.

The ballpark became the temporary home of the Jupiter Hammerheads and Palm Beach Cardinals for the last third of the 2023 season when their home, Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium ten miles north in Jupiter, was shut down for renovations.