Bakersfield Blaze
Tickets available at Sam Lynn Ballpark or online at MILB.com
The Bakersfield Blaze are a minor league baseball team in Bakersfield, California, United States. They are a Class A – Advanced team in the California League and are a farm team of the Seattle Mariners. The Bakersfield Blaze play their home games at Historic Sam Lynn Ballpark. Opened in 1941, the stadium is well known for facing the setting sun and its shallow 354-foot center field fence, and seats 3,500 fans. Their mascots are “Torch” (2012- ) and “Heater” (2003-2012, 2013- ) the dragons, and they are joined by “Pat D. Panda” (2013-) who joins the dragons for a mascot race every game against lucky fans from the stands. Heater was sidelined with a hamstring pull during a mascot race in 2012 but after some good rehab rejoined the team in 2013.