The Home Run Stadium batting cages started in 1986 as 'Danny's Dugout', then owned by Mesa native Danny Lee. A few years later in 1991 the batting cages was purchased by Richard Oltmann of Chicago who incorporated a new kind of pitching machine "Robo Pitch", thus the new business name 'Robo Pitch Stadium'. The "Robo Pitch" pitching machine was a Japanese made machine that incorporated life-like pitching machine to deliver pitches to batters. And then in 1996, Roc Rothchild took over the business and Home Run Stadium started and his family ran it until 2025 when the current owners took over.