USF Baseball Stadium at Red McEwen Field is a

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stadium located in Tampa,

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, United States. It is home to the

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Bulls

team of the Division I

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. The facility has a capacity of 3,211 spectators. Opening in 2011, it replaced

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as the home of USF's baseball team. Features of the ballpark include a 1,500-seat grandstand with canopy, a berm which can accommodate over 1,700 additional spectators along each foul line and in left field, in-ground dugouts, fan pavilions, press box,

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s, a large

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scoreboard, party pavilions in left and right field, and the Donaldson Deck, a party deck where fans can view both the baseball field and adjacent USF Softball Stadium field at the same time.

History

After the demolition of

following the 2010 season, construction of a new facility on the same location began. The alignment of the new field was changed, with home plate moving from the northwest corner to the southwest corner, to accommodate a concourse shared with the newly constructed neighboring USF Softball Stadium and create the USF Baseball/Softball Complex. The physical field is still named after McEwen, as can be seen on the backstop behind home plate, but the stadium is called USF Baseball Stadium. Construction was completed over the 2010–2011 off season, with the stadium hosting its first game on February 25, 2011. The first game at the ballpark set a new attendance record for the team with 3,126 fans (the old field had a capacity of 2,500). Later that season, the Bulls set a new program attendance record again with a sellout crowd of 3,211 fans in a loss to No. 1 Florida. In 2011, the first year of the stadium's opening, the Bulls ranked 29th in Division I

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in attendance. In 2012, college baseball writer Eric Sorenson ranked the stadium as the fifth most underrated venue in Division I baseball. During a game against Army on March 16, 2017, Bulls pitchers Shane McClanahan and Carson Ragsdale combined to throw the first no-hitter in the stadium's history. As of the end of the 2021 season, the Bulls have a 239–128–1 record at the stadium

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