SAN ANTONIO — Home Run Dugout, an indoor baseball-themed business combining food, brews and soft-toss pitching areas, will be coming to San Antonio as the Texas business grows its footprint five years after debuting in Round Rock.
Construction is expected to start sometime in 2025 in "the heart of The Rim," according to a press release teasing the 65,000-square-foot location that will have a full-service restaurant and 30 batting bays. According to a press release, Home Run Dugout puts a modern spin on the batting cage, "offering an immersive, social gaming experience suitable for sluggers of all ages and skill levels" by using augmented reality technology to make you feel like you're swinging away in your favorite ballpark.
Don't worry if you've never faced down a pitching machine with a bat in your hand anymore; the slow-toss technology means baseballs will be coming at you at just 7 mph. The San Antonio location will also feature three bars and a biergarten, while each batting bay will have a 20-by-12-foot screen and multiple TVs.
The company also announced an upcoming location in Scottsdale, its first outside the Lone Star State.
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Home Run Dugout's founders said last year that the concept started in a San Marcos garage with the help of Houston Astros legend Nolan Ryan.
"Batting cages... it's a very anti-social cage environment," cofounder Tyler Bambrick said at the time. "Ball's coming at you at 70 mph, it's sweaty. We just want to go out with our wives and going to a cage isn't fun."
