Location within
North Carolina | |
Former names | BB&T Ballpark (2010–2020) |
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Address | 951 Ballpark Way |
Location | Winston-Salem, NC 27101 |
Coordinates | 36°05′30″N 80°15′21″W / 36.091602°N 80.255962°W |
Owner | City of Winston-Salem |
Operator | Winston-Salem Dash LLC |
Capacity | 5,500 |
Field size | Left field: 315 ft (96 m) Center field: 399 ft (122 m) Right field: 323 ft (98 m) [1] |
Surface | Grass |
Construction | |
Broke ground | October 30, 2007 |
Opened | April 10, 2010 |
Construction cost |
$48.7 million
[1] ($68 million in 2023 dollars [2]) |
Architect |
360 Architecture CJMW Architecture |
Structural engineer | City Structures D&P, Inc. [3] |
General contractor | Samet Construction [4] |
Tenants | |
Winston-Salem Dash ( CL/ High-A East) (2010–present) |
Truist Stadium is a ballpark in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, that replaced Ernie Shore Field. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Winston-Salem Dash minor league baseball team and primary home field of the Carolina Disco Turkeys summer collegiate baseball team.
The ballpark is bounded by Peters Creek Parkway (northwest/west); 1st Street (north); and Green Street (northeast, left-center field). Salem Parkway, which carries US 158 and US 421, is toward the south/southeast.
It was originally planned to open for the 2009 season. Various delays pushed it to mid-2009, and then to the 2010 season. Oversights such as the budget, by city planners, were reported to be the cause. [5]
The first home game was played on April 13, 2010, against the Potomac Nationals, resulting in a 5–4 loss in 12 innings, before 7,111 spectators. [6] At the end of its first season, the stadium was named Ballpark of the Year by Baseballparks.com. [7]
On February 24, 2010, the Dash announced that Winston-Salem based bank BB&T had signed a 15-year naming rights deal for the new ballpark. BB&T also owned the naming rights for fellow Winston-Salem Entertainment-Sports Complex venue BB&T Field, home to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team. [8]
This was the second ballpark in the Carolina League sponsored by BB&T. The first was BB&T Coastal Field (now TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark), home to the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. BB&T also sponsored BB&T Ballpark (now Truist Field) for the Charlotte Knights which opened in the spring of 2014. [9]
The ballpark was renamed Truist Stadium in June 2020 due to the 2019 merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks to form Truist. [10]