For a July 1:10 PM day game at Gesa Stadium, the sun sits 65° up in the south at first pitch, so shade means getting under the grandstand roof or the deck above you. Sunset is 8:45 PM local, so an evening game gets real shade as the sun drops. By 7:05 PM the sun is only 15° up in the west, 100 minutes from setting.
Check the sun for YOUR game →We haven't verified which way Gesa Stadium faces yet, so we won't pretend to name the shady sections. A seating map pointed the wrong way is worse than no map. What's above is real: the sun's exact position for this park's coordinates and timezone. On the interactive page you get the live sun compass, sunset against your game's real start time, and the hour-by-hour forecast.
Sun & sunset check for Gesa Stadium · Satellite shadow view
Pasco sits in the dry southeastern corner of Washington, where summer means relentless sunshine, very little humidity, and evenings that cool off the moment the sun loses altitude. That profile shapes everything about shade at Gesa Stadium, the 3,730-seat home of the Tri-City Dust Devils, the Angels' High-A affiliate. This is desert-adjacent baseball: the sun is strong while it's up, and comfort arrives on a schedule you can predict.
For a typical evening first pitch between 6:35 and 7:05, the July sun is already at 15 degrees above the horizon by 7:00 PM, bearing west-northwest, with sunset at 8:45 PM. Fifteen degrees is skimming-the-rooftops low. It produces glare for anyone facing west-northwest and long shadows everywhere else. In a park as small as Gesa Stadium, a single-level bowl with a compact footprint, most of the seating falls into shadow quickly once the sun drops behind the grandstand or the surrounding terrain. And because Columbia Basin air is dry, the temperature actually follows the sun down; late innings here can feel twenty degrees kinder than the afternoon did.
The rare afternoon game, Sundays, mostly, is where this climate shows its teeth. At a 1:10 PM start the sun stands 65 degrees high, due south, in a sky that is almost never cloudy here in high summer. Dry heat is deceptive: you don't feel sticky, so you don't notice how fast you're dehydrating and burning. In a 3,730-seat park the covered options are limited to the top rows under whatever roof the grandstand carries, so for a matinee bring a hat and sunscreen, drink more water than feels necessary, and don't count on finding shade to move to.
We haven't verified Gesa Stadium's orientation, so the guidance is directional rather than section-by-section: for evening games, put your back to the west-northwest and the low sun becomes someone else's problem; for day games, sit under cover or accept full sun. The interactive shade map includes a satellite shadow view of the park in Pasco, which will show you precisely where the shadow line sits at first pitch on your date. In a park this size you can also just walk to the shady side after the first inning, one of the honest luxuries of minor-league baseball.
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