‘Home Run Dugout’ Is Another Baseball Twist To The Top Golf Phenomenon

The sports entertainment complex business is heating up. First Batbox took its swing at bringing baseball to the industry, and now another player in the space is stepping up to the plate.

Home Run Dugout, the only entertainment concept featuring indoor soft-toss baseball, is expanding their footprint to include new locations in San Antonio and in Scottsdale, AZ, the company’s first location outside of Texas.

Co-founded by Nick Hermandorfer and Tyler Bambrick, Home Run Dugout’s first full-scale location opened in Katy, TX just outside of Houston last March, where it introduced its patented Batting Bay, featuring ground up pitching machines and cageless batting. Since opening Home Run Dugout, the Katy location has delivered over 7.4 million pitches to more than 300,000 guests of all backgrounds and skill levels, resulting in over 1.1 million home runs.

Now, Home Run Dugout is bringing America’s pastime to the masses with their state-of-the-art entertainment venues. Batting Bays feature massive projection screens and immersive augmented reality gameplay which allows players to compete for bragging rights in all of their favorite stadiums.

The new Scottsdale and San Antonio venues will span more than 65,000 square-feet and feature 34 Batting Bays, Home Run Dugout’s signature Biergarten Baseball mini-field, a full-service restaurant, and three bars.

As part of operational expansion efforts, Home Run Dugout also licenses its patented Batting Bays and related technologies. The brand’s social gaming experience is available to third party venue operators, including hotels, casinos, resorts, stadiums, sports complexes, and entertainment centers.

It’s anybody’s guess who will hit a grand slam with customers first.