Red Sox to add two additional dugouts

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The Boston Red Sox plan to build extra seating areas for both the home and aways teams at Fenway Park so players and coaches will be able to social distance during games.



MLB teams will begin their shortened 60-game schedule in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic July 23 and 24. The Red Sox open July 24 at Fenway Park against the Baltimore Orioles.


Manager Ron Roenicke said only nine players and three coaches will be allowed in the real dugouts at the same time during games.



“That means we’ll probably have to alternate the pitching coach and hitting coach during when we hit and when we’re on defense,” Roenicke said during a Zoom conference call Tuesday.



The extra seating area for the home team is expected to be built in the stands between home plate and the home dugout. The extra seating area for the visiting team will be built in the stands between home plate and the visiting dugout.



“Whether it will be tents or whether it will be a structure, I know they need to get going on that,” Roenicke said. “And then in the bullpen, same thing. There’s another structure we’ve talked about behind the bullpen that both the visiting and home team can go back there. And some taller chairs so we can have more guys in the bullpen. As it is right now, you can’t see (over the right-field wall) in the lower chairs. So you’ve got to get a higher chair and we can spread them out enough. I don’t know if we can have all the guys. If we go with eight to 10 guys (relievers), I don’t know if we could have them all in there.”