Editing Dodger Stadium (section)

===Design===
[[File:Dodger Stadium stairs 2015-10-04.jpg|thumb|upright|Stairs to upper deck and reserve seats]]

Dodger Stadium was one of the last baseball-only facilities built before the dawn of the [[multi-purpose stadium]]. It was built near [[Four Level Interchange|the convergence of several freeways]] near downtown Los Angeles, with an expansive parking lot surrounding the stadium. With the construction of many new MLB ballparks in recent years, it is now the [[list of Major League Baseball stadiums|third-oldest park]] still in use, and the oldest on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]].

Dodger Stadium offered several innovative design features. One of these was a covered and screened section of dugout-level seats behind home plate. Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was inspired to incorporate this feature into the Dodger Stadium design after having seen it at Tokyo's [[Korakuen Stadium]] during the Brooklyn Dodgers' postseason goodwill tour of Japan in 1956. The original dugout seating area was replaced by more conventional box seating in a 1999 renovation, but this feature has been replicated at [[Progressive Field]] in Cleveland and [[Angel Stadium of Anaheim]].

Two of Dodger Stadium's most distinctive features are the wavy roof atop each outfield pavilion and the top of a 10-story elevator shaft bearing the Dodger logo rising directly behind home plate at the top of the uppermost seating level.

[[File:Dodger Stadium landscaping 2015-10-04.jpg|thumb|Landscaping in parking lot]]

A unique terraced-earthworks parking lot was built behind the main stands, allowing ticket-holders to park at roughly the level of their seats, minimizing use of ramps once inside. The stadium was also designed to be [[earthquake]]-resistant, an important consideration in California, and it has withstood several serious earthquakes.

Dodger Stadium was originally equipped with two large [[Fair Play Scoreboards|Fair Play electronic scoreboard]] units above the left- and right-field pavilions. The right-field board displayed in-game information. The left-field board displayed scores of out-of-town games and other messages. Smaller auxiliary scoreboards were installed at field level on the box seat fences beyond the first- and third-base dugouts during the inaugural 1962 season. The left-field message board was replaced by a [[Mitsubishi Electric]] [[Diamond Vision]] video board in 1980. The field-level auxiliary scoreboards were replaced by larger units installed on the facade of the Loge (second) seating level in 1998; these, in turn, were replaced by a video ribbon board in 2006. Field-level out-of-town scoreboards were installed on the left- and right-field walls in 2003.

[[Strobe lights]] were added in 2001; they flash when the Dodgers take the field, after a Dodger home run, and after a Dodger win. In 2018, blue strobe lights were added.

[[File:Dodger Stadium hall of retired numbers 2015-10-04.jpg|thumb|Hall of retired numbers inside the stadium in 2015]]