The Right Field Scoreboard's Weld Separated and Forced The Evacuations of Two Sections at Citizens Bank Park Last Night
At last night’s Phillies game, the team evacuated sections 104 and 105, under the hanging right field mini-jumbotron.
I'm told there was an electrical fire in the new RF scoreboard before the game, thus the closure of the sections.
— Evan Webeck (@EvanWebeck) August 19, 2016
Photo credit: Reddit user jeffrife
Though it looks like maybe the scoreboard is in danger of falling, a statement from the Phillies said this was not the case:
#Phillies statement on the RF scoreboard pic.twitter.com/zkgwRrO6CI
— Evan Webeck (@EvanWebeck) August 19, 2016
Before this season started, I used to always play this game in my mind. Even at the most under-attended games, it was hard to find a section that was completely devoid of fans. You’d see one straggler in 432, a school group in 301. This season, it hasn’t been a hard game, but it’s incredibly strange to see two full lower-level sections closed off and empty.
Again, that scoreboard will not fall, but if it did it’d be a pretty fitting analogy for the Phillies’ season. A new screen is installed, it looks better than we thought it would, then the appeal kinda wears off. It eventually catches fire and then falls apart as the season is ending: Your 2016 Phillies Video Yearbook.
