ARIZONA, USA — Play ball!
Spring Training will officially kick off in Arizona with the first game taking place on Feb. 22 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres at the Peoria Sports Complex.
Games will be played throughout the Valley up until the final week of March, but where exactly will each team face off?
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15 teams play at 10 stadiums around the Valley where baseball fans can root, root, root for their favorite teams.
Luckily, Arizona's Cactus League Association lists the locations of every Spring Training stadium across the Valley.
Here is a map made with the location of each Arizona Spring Training stadium. Click on each icon to see which team(s) call that stadium home:
Ticket prices vary between games, with some being much cheaper than others.
As of Monday, Feb. 12, two games had the cheapest tickets and two had the most expensive, according to the ticketing website Gametime.
The cheapest games were the Oakland A's at the Los Angeles Angels at Tempe Diablo Stadium on March 6 and the Kansas City Royals at the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch in Glendale. Tickets for both of those games started at just $2.
The most expensive games both involve the Los Angeles Dodgers. The game between the Dodgers and Angels at Tempe Diablo Stadium on Feb. 24 and the game between the World Series Champion Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Dodgers on March 9 both had tickets starting at $61.
For fans of the hometown Arizona Diamondbacks, the cheapest game is Arizona's game against the Cleveland Guardians on Feb. 29 at Goodyear Ballpark. Tickets for that game currently start at just $7.
The D-backs' most expensive game takes place on March 10 when they travel to Camelback Ranch to play the Dodgers. Tickets for that game currently start at $52.
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Arizona sports
The city of Phoenix is home to five major professional sports league teams; The NFL's Arizona Cardinals, NBA's Phoenix Suns, WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks and NHL's Arizona Coyotes.
The Cardinals have made State Farm Stadium in Glendale their home turf and the Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix is home to both the Suns and the Mercury. The Indoor Football League’s Arizona Rattlers play at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale. The Coyotes play at Mullett Arena on ASU's Tempe campus.
Phoenix also has a soccer team with the USL's Phoenix Rising FC, who play at Phoenix Rising FC Stadium in Phoenix.
The Valley hosts multiple major sporting events on a yearly basis, including college football's Fiesta Bowl and Guaranteed Rate Bowl; the PGA Tour’s highest-attended event, the WM Phoenix Open; NASCAR events each spring and fall, including Championship Weekend in November; and Cactus League Spring Training for 15 Major League Baseball franchises.
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What is the Valley?:
“The Valley” is what locals call the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is considered the largest metropolitan area in the Southwest.
The Valley is made up of various major cities other than Phoenix, including:
- Mesa
- Chandler
- Scottsdale
- Tempe
- Glendale
- Surprise
- Peoria
- Gilbert
- El Mirage
- Avondale
- Litchfield Park
- Goodyear
- Buckeye
Whether a city is in the “East Valley” or “West Valley” depends on where it is in relation to Phoenix.
The cities of the Valley have a combined population of 4,845,832 people, according to the 2020 United States Census. This makes it the 11th largest metropolitan area in the country right behind the Boston and Atlanta areas.