ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers will use specially designed synthetic playing surface rather than grass in their new retractable-roof stadium that opens in 2020.
Texas' decision will make it the fourth of the 30 major league teams to use artificial turf. Toronto's Rogers Centre and Tampa Bay's Tropicana Field have had artificial turf since they opened, and Arizona's Chase Field is switching from grass to turf this season.
MLB has a high of 10 artificial surfaces, in 1977-78 and again from 1982-94.
The Rangers' current stadium, Globe Life Park, has had grass since it opened in 1994.