The Dugout — Local services in Arbutus

Not the best batting cages and tunnels around but definitely good. The tunnels are very good. They have 6 or 7 and they can be used for batting, pitching or fielding practice. Several different types of pitching machines available. Baseball or softball. Fast or slow. And L-screens in every tunnel.

The cages are OK. The machines are not very reliable and as long as we've been going there (about three years now) they haven't been. They tend to pitch quite wildly at times (sporadically) and while we (even my son the baseball player) don't want perfect pitches every time, there are way too many pitches that he literally can't reach. They basically need serious adjustment, maintenance and/or replacement. On the plus side Extra Innings' management is always happy to feed us some extra tokens to make up for the lack of hittable pitches -- they are very nice.

And the price is right --- not very expensive...

I was at the batting cage with my grandson on Sunday 5pm just before closing and we spent almost an hour with inconsistent performance from the machine that feeds the balls. This was happening in all 3 cages.

The light was yellow but the balls would trickle out very slow. I asked for assistance but the young man working upfront but couldn't assist...out of the scope of his talent and it was just about quitting time so he wasn't about to go in there and feed the balls to the feeder.

I would recommend the manager get these machines serviced as quite a few dollars was wasted on Sunday and my 6 year old grandson was not very happy. Lastly, I asked to be called by the manager as I was leaving so hopefully this...

Used to go to these cages often about one to two years ago, I think it was then called Extra Innings, and it was good and there was always someone at the front desk as you walk in. Went last week on a weeknight and while it is still a good place (although one batting cage was out of order so only two available), there was no one at the front desk. I needed assistance, so after searching around for someone I went and knocked on the office door and then two employees came out and one of them was able to help me. So just a heads up if you go and need help and do not see any employee at the desk, go to the side of the pro shop and knock on the...