Is Nationals Park a Hitters Park?
Nationals Park is a neutral park. It scores within 1% of an average MLB park, and allows 4% more home runs.
2026 park factors, three-year rolling averages. 100 = league average.
Why Nationals Park plays this way
Slightly short down both lines with humid summer air that helps the ball travel.
Home of the Washington Nationals in Washington, DC, opened in 2008.
What a park factor actually means
A park factor of 101 means runs are scored 1% more often here than at an average MLB park — comparing the same teams at home and on the road, so roster quality cancels out. The home run factor of 104 does the same thing for home runs only.
The two can disagree sharply, and that is the useful part. A park can suppress home runs while inflating runs, if the wall that stops fly balls also turns them into doubles. Read both numbers before deciding what a park does to a hitter.
Parks that play like this one
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Park factors describe the stadium, not the player. To see what a hitter or pitcher actually produced, with the same formula applied everywhere, check the NUT leaderboard.