Is The Rubber Ducks Game Cancelled Today (2024)

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Where is the RubberDucks game? ›

Canal Park is located in the heart of the Downtown Akron at 300 South Main Street, Akron, OH 44308. Fans can purchase tickets by calling the Canal Park box office at 330-253-5153. The box office is open on non-game days Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and closed on weekends.

Part of a trend across many venues, Canal Park went cashless starting in 2023.

RubberDucks home broadcasts on 640 WHLO can be heard free on Bally Live, where fans can watch any Eastern League and MiLB home video broadcast for free. Games can also be heard on MiLB.TV – the platform carrying home broadcasts from every Eastern League ballpark and more than 7,000 games across Minor League Baseball.

Ken Babby, a native of Potomac, Maryland, is the founder of Fast Forward Sports Group, owning the Akron RubberDucks (AA) and Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (AAA) minor league baseball teams.

As of Aug 30, 2024, the average annual pay for a Minor League Baseball Player in Akron is $50,998 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $24.52 an hour. This is the equivalent of $980/week or $4,249/month.

While there's no set time limit, a typical game has nine innings. The average nine-inning MLB game in recent seasons clocks in around 2 hours and 36 minutes, down from the high of 3 hours and 10 minutes a few seasons ago. Factors that can affect this include pitching pace, offense, and pitching changes.

Tater's dishes has your standard ballpark food (hot dogs, chicken for $5, hamburgers for $6 and pulled pork nachos for $9). The Dog Pound specializes in hot dogs, bratwurst ($5.50), kielbasa ($7.50) and Italian sausage ($5.50). The Biergarten sells sausages and dogs.

The Screamer, 21 scoops of ice cream on a brownie base, $25. Pineapple TeriyAkron Bowl, a hollowed-out pineapple with rice, chicken and Thai chili garlic sauce, $12.

(AKRON, OHIO) February 18, 2022 – The Akron RubberDucks will rebrand to the Akron Homers on Saturday, May 28, to celebrate Akron's favorite purple polka-dotted pigeon mascot.

Since introducing a 14-second timer with no one on base and an 18-second clock with runners on, 9-inning minor-league games have lasted an average of 2 hours, 39 minutes. That's compared to an average minor-league game time of 2:59 without pitch clocks in 2021, and an average run time of 3:03 in 2021.

Who are the rubber ducks? ›

The Akron RubberDucks are a Minor League Baseball team based in Akron, Ohio. The team, which plays in the Eastern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians.

The franchise began in 1923 as the Binghamton (NY) Triplets. Over the years, it underwent several relocations and name changes, eventually settling in Akron in 1997 as the Akron Aeros. In 2013, the team officially changed its name to the Akron RubberDucks.

The name is adapted from the Greek word ἄκρον (ákron), meaning summit or high point. It was laid out in December 1825, where the south part of the downtown Akron neighborhood sits today.

Canal Park is a baseball stadium located in Akron, Ohio, that is the home of the Akron RubberDucks of the Eastern League.

Autzen Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in the northwest United States, in Eugene, Oregon. Located north of the University of Oregon campus, it is the home field of the Oregon Ducks of the Big Ten Conference.

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8 Oregon football team will close out its 2023 season on the first day of 2024, as the Ducks face Liberty in the Fiesta Bowl on Monday in State Farm Stadium at 10 a.m. PT.