Richmond Flying Squirrels sell out opening day for 11 years running
Fred Jeter | 4/29/2021, 6 p.m.
The Richmond Flying Squirrels have hung the “Sold Out” sign on The Diamond box office for the 11th straight home opener.
All 2,943 available tickets—about 30 percent of capacity at The Diamond—have been sold for the team’s opener on Tuesday, May 4, against the Hartford Yard Goats of Connecticut.
Fans will be treated to some long-awaited baseball and a postgame fireworks display.
The limited attendance, resulting from the pandemic, is required under the authority of the Commonwealth of Virginia and Major League Baseball.
In normal times, The Diamond’s capacity is 9,560.
Richmond was forced to lock the gates last year as all minor league baseball took a one-season pause.
According to Trey Wilson, the Flying Squirrels’ director of communications and broadcasting, some tickets remain for the remaining five games of the home stand, but they’re going fast.
To purchase tickets, go to Squirrelsbaseball.com/tickets, or call (804) 359-3866, or go to the box office at The Diamond.
Wilson said the team is hopeful that the attendance restriction will be relaxed at some future date. Social distancing and masks are required.
An affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, the Richmond Flying Squirrels arrived at The Diamond in 2010 as a member of the AA Eastern League.
This season, the name of the league has been changed to Double-A Northeast. Hartford is the AA farm club of the Colorado Rockies.
