Tonight marks game three of the division series between the Texas Rangers and the Toronto Blue Jays.

We’ll let the sportscasters and pundits analyze players and statlines — we wanted to compare stadiums to determine which team comes out on top in terms of electricity consumption, usage and efficiency. You might remember that we previously ranked the top ten most energy efficient stadiums in Major League Baseball, but this a direct comparison between Globe Life Park (Rangers) and Rogers Centre (Blue Jays).

Texas Rangers

The Texas Rangers are based in Arlington, Texas. Established in 1961 as the Washington Senators, the team has seen a few name changes, and has also called several cities home. They’ve appeared in 7 MLB postseason appearances, advancing past the Division Series for the first time in 2010, where they brought home the team’s first American League pennant. The Texas Rangers made it all the way to the World Series, but lost to the San Francisco Giants. The following year, they reached the world series again, but lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in the seventh game.

General Team Information

The Texas Rangers moved to Arlington, Texas after the 1971 season. The team then moved into the Globe Life Park, a replacement facility for the Arlington Stadium. Torchmark Corporation, a company based out of McKinney, Texas owns Globe Life Park. In May of this year, the Texas Rangers announced that they will have a new ballpark for the 2026 season.

Location: Arlington, Texas
Owners: Ray Davis, Bob R. Simpson
Manager: Jeff Banister
Pitching Coach: Doug Brocail
Division Series Roster:
C — Jonathan Lucroy, Robinson Chirinos
IF — Mitch Moreland, Rougned Odor, Elvis Andrus, Adrian Beltre, Jurickson Profar, Ryan Rua
OF — Carlos Gomez, Shin-Soo Choo, Carlos Beltran, Ian Desmond, Nomar Mazara, Jared Hoying
SP — Yu Darvish, Cole Hamels, Colby Lewis, Martin Perez
RP — Sam Dyson, Matt Bush, Tony Barnette, Jake Diekman, Keone Kela, Jeremy Jeffress, Alex Claudio

Globe Life Park – Stadium Stats

Globe Life Park opened on April 1, 1994. The stadium is a baseball-only facility that covers 270 acres costing approximately $191 million to complete. The building itself was constructed in 23 months with 48,114 seats, an open-air concept, and an asymmetrical playing field. The facility includes a 12-acre lake, an office building, as well as park and recreation areas around the building’s perimeter.

Amenities include:

  • Hyundai Club
  • The Budweiser Bowtie at Vandergriff Plaza
  • Captain Morgan Club
  • Capital One Club
  • Kid’s Zone
  • Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame
  • A 225-seat auditorium and theater
  • Concession Food & Beverage Service

The stadium has partnered with Daktronics Inc. and Sony Corporation in order to help provide the best content in several different formats. These improvements include,

Video Boards: The board on the roof of the Home Run Porch measures 42 by 120 feet. Another board on top of the office building in centerfield is 25 by 29 feet. These new boards use high-definition technology instead of standard definition. Both of the boards mentioned use LED technology for better image quality and tighter resolution. They also allow for flexible programming, operate as a single display, or separate into multiple windows to display the content.

IPTV System: There are also over 800 LCD monitors within the ballpark. These are all state of the art, Sony professional-grade and were installed in 2009.

Show Control System: The stadium has the technology to control all elements of technology through one integrated system. This system makes life easier for staff and content programmers who don’t need to try to work with several systems to get the job done.

Audio System: The old speakers were replaced and upgraded with a newer system that worked better together with the video boards and other systems. The speakers help visitors to better hear the announcer and other audio components of the game.

Energy Efficiency Initiatives

There is no question that the amount of electricity it takes to power a state of the art stadium isn’t small and Globe Life Park is no exception. However, to help reduce the impact of this energy consumption on the city and state, power management company, Eaton announced that the Texas Rangers have recently installed its advanced LED lighting system.

This lighting system comes with the latest and greatest in LED technology, and will help to reduce energy consumption in the ballpark by 60%. According to Rob Matwick executive vice president, Business Operations for the Texas Rangers, “Reducing the fixture count and being more energy efficient represents significant advantages and we’re especially impressed with the improved field lighting for our players, fans and broadcast partners. The Rangers are thrilled to be among the early adopters of this new LED technology.”

This new, energy efficient lighting system includes:

  • Ephesus Stadium Pro lights
  • MX control system that features
  • self-contained fiber-optic communications network

The system requires half the number of lighting fixtures, yet shines more uniformly into the ballpark. They are maintenance free, last for years, are easy to install and offer low operating costs.

Toronto Blue Jays

Established in 1977, the Blue Jays were owned by the Labatt Brewing Company. They are the second team in the MLB franchise based outside the U.S. but is also currently the only team based outside the Untied States due to the fact that the Montreal Expos moved to Washington D.C. in 2004. After winning the world series for the second time in 1993, the Blue Jays did not make it to another playoff game until 2015.

General Team Information

The Blue Jays initially played out of Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, Ontario. When the SkyDome opened in 1989, the team moved into the ballpark. In 2004, Rogers Communications purchased the Blue Jays, and changed the stadium’s name to the Rogers Center.

Location: Toronto, Ontario
Owners: Rogers Communications
Manager:John Gibbons
General Manager: Ross Atkins
Division Series Roster:
P — David Price, Marcus Stroman, Marco Estrada, R.A. Dickey, Roberto Osuna, Brett Cecil, Aaron Sanchez, Mark Lowe, LaTroy Hawkins, Liam Hendriks, Aaron Loup.
C — Russell Martin, Dioner Navarro.
IF — Edwin Encarnacion, Justin Smoak, Chris Colabello, Ryan Goins, Troy Tulowitzki, Josh Donaldson, Cliff Pennington.
OF — Jose Bautista, Kevin Pillar, Ben Revere, Dalton Pompey, Ezequiel Carrera.

World Series Championship Winners: 1992, 1993

Rogers Center – Stadium Stats

Made up of 4 sections that open, the Rogers Center has the world’s first fully retractable roof, one that can open or close within 20 minutes. Weighing 11,000 tons, the roof itself covers 8 acres, rising to a height of 310 feet, which is the same height as a 31 story building.

Other stadium stats include:

  • The development area is 12.7 acres
  • The building itself is only 11.5 ares
  • The field level contains 143,000 square feet of exhibit space
  • The building’s diameter is 700 feet

The Roger Centers also has several technologies to help broadcast the games to spectators. These technologies include videoboards, all of which have LED displays that can show 4.3 trillion colors. The stadium’s main board is 110′ by 33′ and is only 2″ thick.

Energy Efficiency Initiatives

Over the years, the Rogers Center has made efforts to upgrade its various systems in order to reduce the amount of energy consumed during the baseball season. Starting in 2007, they began to work with Encelium Technologies to focus on upgrading the lighting and control system. This project is still ongoing as they continue to make updates to areas including offices, suites, access ramps and the parking garage.

Lighting Improvements

Quite simply, the old light fixtures had T12 bulbs which needed to be replaced by T8 bulbs. T8 bulbs are much more energy efficient. This change, in addition to others ensured that the Rogers Center saved enough electricity to power almost 200 homes in Toronto. Other upgrades to the energy efficiency of the Rogers Center include,

  • Daylight harvesting functionality
  • Motion sensors, time scheduling and wall switches installed to control lights
  • Addressable lighting control with unique IP addresses for lighting fixtures
  • Using desktop controls, office staff have control over the light level at their work station

Other Improvements

The Rogers Center has also partnered with many other companies to improve energy consumption in other areas including:

  • Thermostat replacement to centralize heating and cooling
  • Installation of isolation dampers
  • Replacement of HID bowl lights to more energy efficient models
  • Variable Frequency Drives installed on 2 of the 4 chillers
  • Automatic flush valves installed on all toilets and urinals, which use less water per flush
  • Replaced all hand dryers with high speed hand dryers (use 88% less electricity)

Earth Hour

The Rogers Center participates in Earth Hour, and has participated in this event every year since 2008. The entire facility turns off its power for 24 hours to try and help reduce their electricity consumption and encourage other businesses to do the same.

The Winner

While we can’t comment on who will win tonight’s game, or the series for that matter, we can see that the Rogers Center has made considerable strides in their energy consumption, starting to make improvements to the building starting in the early 2000s.

But not so fast:  Globe Life Park has more recently turned their attention to the important issue of energy conservation, making use of technology that is even more energy efficient compared to what the Rogers Center installed at the time.

Overall, our research shows that both teams are actively pursuing and implementing ways to conserve energy.  While tonight’s game certainly can’t end this way, we find it impossible to declare a winner — it’s a tie!