To protect your playing field from the elements and improve player safety, consider investing in quality protection. With daily use, your field can take significant damage over time that is difficult to contain. Rain and winter precipitation are especially hard on baseball and softball turf. Facility managers using these specially designed field covers to cover playing areas spend significantly less time and money on maintenance. Let’s take a closer look at some of the short-term and long-term benefits.

Benefits of using a softball field cover

• Protects your grounds from rain, hail, sleet, ice, occasional snowfall, wind and UV exposure

• Reinforced polyethylene fabric prevents water from collecting when it rains

• Helps you avoid rain interruptions and rain delays between games

• Protects bases, home plate and pitcher’s mound when not in use

• Reduces weather damage in the winter months

• Protects your interior field from excessive foot traffic

• Gives your grass a chance to recover from play

• Helps maintain ideal playing conditions and reduces the risk of injury to players

• Reduces maintenance effort and cost while maintaining high value

Having the right type of equipment can save you a considerable amount of time, money and stress in terms of maintenance. In addition to this, you should also consider mound and spot covers and plates for extra protection.

When you go shopping, it is highly recommended that you buy quality products made from a single piece of material. Reinforced polyethylene fabric or vinyl works best. Having heavy stitching on the edges helps keep the cover in place. You can also use sandbags or stakes to keep it from moving. Make sure the seams are heat-sealed and double-stitched (to prevent them from opening) and have sturdy grommets (preferably brass) for the stakes.

Since these come in many sizes, it is important to know the dimensions of the floor before you go out and make a purchase. It may be worth investing in tarp rollers which reduce the time needed to roll out covers and limit product damage, as well as making storage easier.

Where can you buy these field covers for your installation? Buy from an established sports equipment dealer that offers quality products and consistent service. Cheap, poor quality field covers will not last too many seasons.

Help outfielders keep bases, batters’ cages and pitching mound protected with a quality softball field cover.