Dell Diamond

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Dell Diamond
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Dell Diamond
Location3400 East Palm Valley Boulevard
Round Rock, Texas
United States
Coordinates 30°31′38″N97°37′50″W / 30.5273°N 97.6305°W / 30.5273; -97.6305
Owner City of Round Rock
Operator Ryan Sanders Baseball LP
Capacity 11,631
Record attendance13,475 (June 16, 2006)
Field sizeLeft field: 335 feet (102 m)
Center field: 400 feet (120 m)
Right field: 325 feet (99 m)
SurfaceTifTuf Bermuda grass [1]
Construction
Broke groundFebruary 26, 1999 (1999-02-26) [2]
OpenedApril 16, 2000 (2000-04-16)
Construction cost$25 million [3]
($42.5 million in 2022 dollars [4] )
Architect HKS, Inc.
Project managerThe Madison Group, Ltd. [5]
Services engineerBlum Consulting Engineers, Inc. [6]
General contractor Hensel Phelps
Tenants

Dell Diamond is the home stadium of the Round Rock Express, the Triple-A Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Texas Rangers major league baseball team. On April 16, 2000, the then-Double-A affiliate Express played their first home game at the stadium. [7]

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Dell Diamond is built on 85 acres (344,000 m2) of former farmland on the east side of Round Rock, Texas, [8] a rapidly growing suburban city northeast of Austin. Nolan Ryan and his son Reid Ryan, part owners of the Express, originally wanted a stadium inside the city of Austin, but found a more attractive site in the City of Round Rock, with support from the city leadership. The city of Round Rock contributed $7.35 million to the $25 million cost of the facility. The city owns the ballpark and gave the Express a 38-year lease. Local-based computer technology company Dell contracted for naming rights in a deal that will cost the company $2.5 million over 15 years.

Events

The stadium has also hosted several college games, including some early-season University of Texas contests in 2007 while the Longhorns' home field, UFCU Disch-Falk Field, was undergoing a major renovation project. A showcase neutral-site game was played on February 21, 2012, between the Baylor Bears and Texas State Bobcats. [9] Dell Diamond is also the designated site for the University Interscholastic League state baseball tournament. On February 13, 2016, the stadium hosted a rugby union match between Canada and USA Rugby, as part of the Americas Rugby Championship.

On June 25, 2007, Manny Parra, pitcher for the visiting Nashville Sounds, pitched a perfect game against the Round Rock Express at the ballpark. [10]

On July 11, 2001, the ballpark hosted the Double-A All-Star Game in which a team of National League-affiliated All-Stars defeated a team of American League-affiliated All-Stars, 8–3, before 12,046 people in attendance. [11]

In 2004 Nicole Richie & Paris Hilton "worked" at the stadium for the day. This was filmed as a part of a Season 2 episode of The Simple Life , their reality TV show. [12]

In October 2016, the stadium hosted the Traxxas Monster Truck Destruction Tour prior to the field's being resurfaced.

From September 2017 to mid-March 2018, the stadium was transformed into a set for the fourth season of television's Fear the Walking Dead . [13] As a result, the field had to be resurfaced again because vegetables had been planted on it and the grass had been killed with chemicals to attain a post-apocalyptic look.

Rugby union

In 2019, the Austin Elite, of Major League Rugby, announced Dell Diamond as their home stadium for the 2019 season. Dell Diamond has also hosted international matches for the Americas Rugby Championship.

DateVisitingScoreHomeCompetitionEventAttendance
February 13, 2016Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 22–30Flag of the United States.svg  United States World Rugby ARC 7,415 [14]
February 11, 2017Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 3–51Flag of the United States.svg  United States World Rugby ARC [15]
February 23, 2019Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 28–33Flag of the United States.svg  United States World Rugby ARC [16]

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