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Daikin Park (originally Enron Field and formerly Astros Field and Minute Maid Park) is a retractable roof stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. It opened in 2000 and is the home ballpark of the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball .
It was renamed Minute Maid Park in June 2002 as part of a deal with The Minute Maid Co., a Houston-based subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Co. ... Then-Astros owner Drayton McLane said at the time the ...
The Houston Astros on Monday announced a 15-year stadium naming rights agreement with Daikin Comfort Technologies.
Coincidentally, the record was broken in Houston 19 years later at Minute Maid Park during the 2005 NLDS when the Astros won an 18-inning game against the Atlanta Braves. On October 3, 1999, the Astros played their final regular season game at the Astrodome, clinching the NL Central Division title with a 9–4 win over the Dodgers.
The team, managed by first-year manager Brad Mills, began their 11th season at Minute Maid Park and 46th as the Astros on April 5. After finishing 74–88 the year before in fifth place, the Astros finished 76–86 in fourth place in 2010. This was the best before the Astros moved to American League in 2013.
Union Station Lobby is the main entrance to Daikin Park, and the former concourse of Union Station Plans for a new Houston ballpark to replace the Astrodome began in 1995, and originally called for a site to be used at the Astrodomain .
The roof at Minute Maid Park will be closed for Game 1 of the World Series and likely will be shut for Game 2. Major League Baseball makes the decision during the World Series whether to open or ...
Having first played in Colt Stadium (1962–1964), and later in The Astrodome, now known as the Reliant Astrodome (1965–1999), the Astros have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, which was first named The Ballpark at Union Station, since 2000. [1] [2] The current manager is Joe Espada. There have been 25 managers for the Astros ...