Walmart Park

The Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey, officially known as Walmart Park and popularly known as Palacio Sultán, is a baseball stadium in Monterrey, Nuevo León. It is the home venue of the Sultanes Monterrey Mexican League baseball team. It holds 22,078 people, making it the largest baseball stadium in Mexico and the third-largest in Hispanic America. The stadium is located meters away from the Estadio Universitario, the AFAIM stadium (a football stadium), the Niños Heroes Park, and the Niños Heroes Metro station, and not far from the Plaza de Toros Monumental Monterrey "Lorenzo Garza" (Bullring). The stadium was inaugurated in games starting on 13 July 1990 when Monterrey played host to the World Youth Baseball Championship (for players 16 years old and under). The first LMB game was held on 20 July 1990 when the Sultanes defeated the Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo in 12 innings. In 1991 it hosted some preliminary games during the Pan American Games, although the baseball final series between host Cuba and Puerto Rico was held at Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana. In August 1996, the stadium hosted a three-game series between the National League's San Diego Padres and New York Mets, marking the first time Major League Baseball was played in Mexico. The Padres took two out of three games from the Mets. It was also the site of an Opening Day game between the Colorado Rockies and the Padres on April 4, 1999, which the Rockies won, 8–2.