As of May 31, when the Yard Goats hoped to play their first home game, the team will have missed 28 of 71 home games, about 40 percent of the schedule, to construction delays. Those games have been played at the venue of the teams that were supposed to be visiting Hartford and, beginning May 12, at Thomas Dodd Stadium in Norwich, which is the home of the short-season Single A New York-Penn League Connecticut Tigers. That team's home opener is scheduled for June 22.