The Vero Beach Devil Rays are located in Dodgertown in Vero Beach. Up until this year, the Dodgers played their minor league games here and then decided to switch locations with the Devil Rays, whose minor league team operates in California. Here is the interesting thing—the Vero Beach Devil Rays are still run by the Dodgers. When you walk into the offices at the stadium, there are some Devil Rays logos, but they are significantly outnumbered by the Dodgers memorabilia on the walls.

Holman Stadium was built in 1953 and named after Bud Holman, the local entrepreneur who lured the then-Brooklyn Dodgers to Vero Beach (source). The stadium has a very relaxing feel to it—behind home plate sits the press box and concession area, and the rest of the stadium is seating down the first and third base lines. It is the only stadium in Major and Minor League baseball that has open dugouts, meaning that the dugouts are literally dug out of the ground and doesn’t have a roof over it.

Tonight’s game was a great way to cap off our doubleheader. Thanks to Katie and all of the Devil Rays staff for being so nice to us and giving us a great raffle prize. When we arrived at the stadium, we walked through a storage area where I spotted the same hot dog costume I wore in Rome. I had no other choice but to try to avenge my loss tonight. Tonight it was only me and Chris in the race—we were both dressed as hot dogs. The race was from the right field to home plate, much similar to our previous race. However, the race was almost over from the beginning. Chris turned on his jets right from the start and had a small lead on me the whole time. So I lost, again, but barely. I attribute Chris’ victory to the fact he was able to sleep from Lakeland to Vero Beach while I was stuck driving. I will vow to race in the hot dog costume again, and will keep doing so until I win.

Chris also got to throw out his first pitch tonight, and did a decent job of getting it over the plate.

Tomorrow we are off to Fort Myers, Fl for the Miracle.