Ballpark seating guides: where every section actually is

A ticketing seat map answers one question at a glance: where would I actually be sitting? These guides answer the same question in words. For every section in every park covered here you get the level, where the section sits relative to home plate, how many rows deep it is, which row the entrance is on, and which end of the row seat 1 is on.

4723 sections across 30 ballparks are documented so far, covering the whole of the American League East, Central and West, and the National League East, Central and West.

Why a section number on its own is not enough

You might reasonably assume the conventions are the same everywhere. They are not. Across the thirty parks here:

• Section numbers run in different directions. At seven parks they climb toward first base and right field, and at nineteen they climb the other way. At three more — Dodger Stadium, Petco Park and Tropicana Field — they do not sweep round the bowl at all: they run outward from home plate, odd numbers down one line and even numbers down the other. Fenway Park does both at once, sweeping on its lower tiers and numbering by parity on the Pavilion tiers.
• Seat 1 is not on the same side. Facing the field it is on your left at eight parks and your right at nineteen. At Dodger Stadium and Petco Park it changes with the parity of the section, because seat 1 is the end of the row nearest home plate on both halves of the ballpark. At Sutter Health Park no source states it at all, and at Citi Field two sources state opposite rules.
• Rows are numbers at some parks and letters at others. Angel Stadium, PNC Park, Great American Ball Park, Progressive Field, Kauffman Stadium, Nationals Park, Dodger Stadium and Tropicana Field use letters, running past Z into AA and beyond. Busch Stadium, Sutter Health Park, Comerica Park, Citi Field, loanDepot park, Oracle Park, Chase Field, Coors Field and Fenway Park use both at once. At most of those the lettered rows sit in front of the numbered ones; at Coors Field the numbers come first and a lettered block C to W sits behind them.
• Even the dugouts move. The home dugout is on the first-base side at most of these parks, and the third-base side at Wrigley Field, PNC Park, Sutter Health Park, Rate Field, Progressive Field, Comerica Park, Oracle Park, Chase Field, Dodger Stadium and Rogers Centre. At loanDepot park and Yankee Stadium the sources contradict each other outright.
• Accessible rows are labelled differently everywhere. WCH at Rate Field and again at Tropicana Field, VWC or WWC at Kauffman, an AC suffix at Comerica, WCA at Rogers Centre, a C or W suffix at Chase Field, WC interleaved mid-numbering at Target Field, a WC suffix on the last row at Citizens Bank Park, and at Nationals Park a WC suffix on the section number rather than the row. Oracle Park, Petco Park, Dodger Stadium and Fenway Park publish no convention at all, and at Oriole Park at Camden Yards there is no label either — section 336 reads 1–5, 9–25 and the missing rows 6 to 8 are the wheelchair platform.
• Numbering is not always continuous. Globe Life Field's lower level runs 1–26 round the infield and then jumps to left field for 27–33. Target Field's Main Level wraps the whole way round, putting 132–140 back in right field, and Truist Park's, loanDepot park's and Oracle Park's lower levels do the same. American Family Field's Terrace rows skip 4, 6 and 7 entirely, and Nationals Park has no sections 410–415 because the press box sits there. At Oriole Park at Camden Yards one run of numbers, 1–98, alternates between two tiers, the even sections in front and the odd sections directly behind them.

So a habit learned at one ballpark will mislead you at the next one. Each guide below states the rule for that park and then applies it section by section, so you do not have to work it out from the number alone.

The ballparks

Grouped by division. Each links to a full guide.

American League East

American League Central

American League West

National League East

National League Central

National League West

How these were built

Rows, entrance rows, ticket zones and seat-numbering direction come from RateYourSeats, one page fetched per section, with A View From My Seat as a fallback. Orientation, dugouts, bullpens, capacity and accessibility come from each team's own ballpark and accessibility guides, cross-checked against independent ballpark guides.

Where a source does not state something, the data says so rather than guessing. Every section carries a confidence rating, and every guide lists what could not be confirmed. The underlying CSV and notes files are linked for download from each ballpark's page, so you can check the working or reuse the data.

These pages are built to WCAG 2.2 Level AA and audited with axe-core in both light and dark mode. No JavaScript is required to read any of the content.

Before you buy

Ballparks change. Netting gets extended, sections get renamed, construction blocks sightlines that were fine last season. Everything here was compiled in August 2026 from public sources and is not a substitute for the team's own ticket office, which can confirm a specific seat and is the right place to arrange accessible seating.

If something here is wrong — a section placed on the wrong side of the park, a row range that does not match the ticket in your hand, a seat-numbering rule that reads backwards — please file an issue on GitHub. Corrections from people who know a ballpark first-hand are the fastest way this gets better, and the underlying data files linked from every ballpark page are there so you can check the working.