Walker Stadium gets ready for Pickles

Written by Portland Tribune

The players and coaching staff are in place for the first season of Portland Pickles baseball. The major work now being done is to the home ballpark, Walker Stadium, in Lents Park.

Crews have completed extensive excavation work, demolished the condemned grandstand and press box and taken down the chain-link backstop.

A new backstop is under construction, and a new scoreboard and chair seats with backs are due to arrive soon.

The Pickles are one of six teams in the new Great West League, a summer college wood-bat league set to launch June 3.

Portland’s first home game will be on Friday, June 10. The Pickles will play 30 regular-season home games, all at night.

Other teams in the league are the Medford Rogues, Sacramento Stealth, Chico Heat, Lodi Crushers and Marysville Gold Sox.

Portland will open with three games at Medford and three at Chicago before its home-opening three-game series against Marysville.