Ballpark
Qualcomm Stadium
San Diego · 1969–2003 · config 2003
Favors pitchers
(-0.1 runs for the away team)
Dimensions
LF 327′ · LFA 370′ · LC 370′ · CF 405′ · RC 370′ · RFA 370′ · RF 330′
Walls LF 8′ · CF 8′ · RF 8′
Multi-purpose Mission Valley bowl
Cavernous foul ground
Capacity 66,307
Mission Valley concrete — big foul ground and marine-layer evenings.
Overhead diagram
Photograph
About this park
Qualcomm / Jack Murphy Stadium was San Diego's multipurpose bowl — marine air, pitcher lean, and football memories in the same footprint. Padres clubs learned to manufacture. The park did not hand out Coors-style gifts; fly balls died in the evening damp.