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On the Anacostia River waterfront in the rapidly redeveloping Navy Yard neighbourhood about a mile south-east of the United States Capitol, Nationals Park is the home stadium of the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball and one of the most modern ballparks in the league. The 41,339-seat venue opened on 30 March 2008 at a cost of approximately 693 million dollars, replacing the Nationals' previous interim home at the historic Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium across the Anacostia River. The ballpark was designed by the celebrated Kansas City-based sports architecture firm HOK Sport (now Populous, the firm responsible for nearly every major American sports stadium built since the late 1980s) in a deliberately contemporary architectural style intended to break with the retro neo-historic ballpark tradition that had dominated baseball architecture since the 1992 opening of Camden Yards in Baltimore. The exterior facade combines limestone, glass and structural steel in a modernist composition that explicitly references the celebrated 1930s-era federal architecture of the broader Washington area. The ballpark's defining feature is the celebrated panoramic view of the United States Capitol dome visible from the upper deck of the right-field grandstand, a deliberate design choice that frames every game with one of the most iconic backdrops in American sports. The view is enhanced by the relatively low maximum height of the surrounding Navy Yard development, with the Capitol dome rising clearly above the central downtown skyline. The ballpark was the first LEED-certified Major League Baseball stadium, with extensive sustainability features including a green roof on the main concourse, low-flow water fixtures throughout the facility and a comprehensive recyclables sorting programme. The facility was awarded LEED Silver certification in 2008, the first major-league sports facility to achieve any LEED rating. The Nationals won their first World Series at the park in October 2019, defeating the Houston Astros in seven games in a memorable series that included four consecutive road victories (an unprecedented feat in World Series history). The celebrated Game 6 walk-off home run by Anthony Rendon and the celebrated Game 7 home run by Howie Kendrick remain among the most replayed moments in modern World Series history. The ballpark hosts an active calendar of off-season concerts, college football games and corporate events.

Type: Stadium / Arena

Address: 1500 South Capitol Street Southeast, Washington, DC, United States

Telephone: 202-675-6287

Website: mlb.com/nationals/ballpark

Capacity: 41339

Opening Date: 30/03/2008