Workers Begin Installing New Safety Netting At Target Field
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- We are just weeks away from the Opening Day for the Minnesota Twins.
The baseball team is taking steps to increase fan safety at Target Field. Workers are installing nets around home plate that extend to the end of both dugouts.
As it turns out, the seats at Target Field are closer to the action than any other Major League baseball stadium. And Major League Baseball officials made a recommendation in the offseason that each stadium have some kind of protection within 70 feet of home plate.
"We were in compliance here but we felt on our own that we wanted to go above and beyond that," Matt Hoy with the Minnesota Twins said.
The net threading is thinner than what was already in place. The Twins say they don't expect it will obstruct anyone's view of the game.