The roof will be opened for tonight s interleague matchup against the red sox.
Marlins park roof open tonight.
Fans should be prepared to open their bags for inspection and may be asked by security staff to shift and possibly remove the contents.
Moving along two 2 750 foot long tracks spanning 566 feet the roof at marlins park creates an opening that is wider than any nfl retractable roof stadium.
It takes roughly 13 15 minutes to go from the fully closed to the fully open position.
Roof panels can be operated independently to.
Any item that could affect the safety of marlins park guests staff property will be denied entry.
On opening night april 4 2012 the miami marlins opened up marlins park officially to the public.
Yesterday being opening day the marlins did not want the roof closed.
The logic is that it s better for the fan experience weather permitting.
The game ball was delivered by muhammed ali and the anthem was sung by jose feliciano.
Marlins park has a retractable roof and the miami marlins are aiming to open it whenever possible this season.
Prior to marlins home games guests can learn whether the roof will be open or closed by visiting the marlinspark twitter account.
560 foot span track to track just short of two football fields in length or roughly 5 27 acres.
The roof will be open tonight for our 4th game in a row matching a marlinspark record.
We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us.
Will have a separate story on this a bit later but nationals players were extremely unhappy with the roof being open today at marlins park because of the shadows.
Follow marlinspark on twitter for daily updates on roof openings and closings.
They were hoping it was a passing 3 minute shower which miami is infamous for but it backfired on them.