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Rogers Centre

TOR Toronto · home of the Blue Jays

Bid stats cover 2015 onward.

Pitcher's Haven

The first hit takes its time here.

Rogers Centre, formerly SkyDome, has seen four no-hitters. The most recent was thrown by Justin Verlander for the Astros against the Blue Jays on September 1, 2019. Measured by how long the first hit takes to land, the park is one of the five friendliest active parks to a no-hit bid, No. 5 of 30: the first hit lands in inning 1.83 on average, later than the league's 1.77.

#5
bid-friendliness
of 30 active parks
1.83
avg first-hit inning
league 1.77
14
deep bids
since 2015
4
no-hitters
all-time
+0.1
home edge
innings to first hit
869
games tracked
since 2015
Rogers Centre field layout: a top-down outline of the outfield wall and infield, drawn to the same scale as every other park on the site
LF 328′ · CF 400′ · RF 328′

First-hit profile

57% of first hits come in the 1st

When the first hit lands at this park; dashed line is the league as a whole. The later the hits arrive, the friendlier the park is to a no-hit bid.

The home ballpark edge

home vs visiting pitchers

How the first hit falls for home pitchers and for visiting pitchers at this park.

Home pitchers

Avg first-hit inning1.90
Deep bids7
Most hitless innings8

Visiting pitchers

Avg first-hit inning1.76
Deep bids7
Most hitless innings9

League-wide, home teams hold off the first hit until inning 1.81 on average, and visitors only until 1.73. A single park’s split also carries its home club’s pitching and plain sampling noise.

Deepest bids at this park

since 2015
PitcherTeamDateOpponentHitless
Justin Verlander HOU Sep 1, 2019 ↗ TOR 9 · no-hitter ↗
James Paxton SEA May 8, 2018 ↗ TOR 9 · no-hitter ↗
Bowden Francis TOR Sep 11, 2024 ↗ NYM through the 8th
Bowden Francis TOR Aug 24, 2024 ↗ LAA through the 8th
Tyler Alexander TB May 17, 2024 ↗ TOR through the 7th
Marco Estrada TOR Jun 19, 2015 ↗ BAL through the 7th
José Soriano TOR Sep 14, 2026 ↗ DET through the 6th
Louis Varland TOR Sep 25, 2025 ↗ BOS through the 6th
Easton McGee SEA Apr 29, 2023 ↗ TOR through the 6th
Ross Stripling TOR Aug 17, 2022 ↗ BAL through the 6th

No-hitters thrown at this ballpark

4 all-time

1990 · OAK over TOR

Dave Stewart no-hits the Blue Jays.

One of two no-hitters that day. Fernando Valenzuela threw the other.

2011 · DET over TOR

Justin Verlander no-hits the Blue Jays.

Verlander's second career no-hitter.

2018 · SEA over TOR

James Paxton no-hits the Blue Jays.

The Big Maple, no-hitting the Blue Jays in his native Canada.

2019 · HOU over TOR

Justin Verlander no-hits the Blue Jays.

Season by season

Bids that stayed hitless through the 6th at this park, year by year. A gold bar marks a year when one of them became a no-hitter.