Today's game appears to be sold out via Astros site and Stubhub. Edit: Nevermind, found some via ticketmaster direct...
35,000 average for a series against an opponent with no drawing power. 31,000 average since mid June. Fan base isn't all the way back, but it's getting there. More importantly the crowds clearly have more life. If the team keeps it up MMP will be back in full swing by September.
Went to games on Friday and Saturday this weekend. Big crowds and the place was full of life. Reminded me of 2005. It honestly felt like baseball was back this weekend.
Sounds about right for Tampa Bay & The Trop. Oh, it was at Minute Maid? Lowest since June 29 vs. KC (20K)
Back to school. This is where the last few seasons will start to drag down attendance again...because the season ticket base built in the offseason just isn't built up enough yet to cover up when the summer ends. Weekend crowds will be good....and they're definitely building the season ticket base already for next season. Attendance was under 20K in Arlington last night too.
Funny how no one bumped this thread over the last 2 weeks of huge crowds. But a Monday night against TB that also happens to be the first day of school for many? Time to bump the thread!
Last september, attendance for some mid-week Royals games were in the 15,000 range. Now, just one year removed from a WS berth, they're close to all sell-outs. I don't expect that drastic an improvement... but there is always a delay in terms of on the field success and consistent large crowds.
Yeah, pretty sucky for DAL too. Stros are in 1st place though and had smaller attendance. Doubt the Stros had 2 weeks of "huge" crowds, but will research when time allows. I know there were a few ~32,000k games, but not sure any sellouts. btw- first week of school for private schools.... definitely a minority
Tickets are not cheap. I guess many would rather watch on Root Sports than dishing out for tickets, $20 parking, and overpriced food.
I've only paid to park on day games other than Sunday. Park for free on the street after 6pm. If there before 6pm then just pay the little bit of meter time to get you to 6. They allow people to bring in a one gallon zip lock bag of your own food and one unopened bottle of water.
They've averaged 32,300 over their 15 previous home games; 6 of those were weeknights. By recent standards, those are "huge" crowds. Overall, for a team that's been historically terrible... I bet they could live with 32,300/night.
Spoiler Home attendance (or announced tickets sold) TB(Mon. 8/17) - 16,256 DET(Sun. 8/16) - 29,969 DET(Sat. 8/15) - 29,482 DET(Fri. 8/14) - 33,212 ARI(Sun. 8/2) - 33,871 ARI(Sat. 8/1) - 36,602 ARI(Fri. 7/31) - 34,720 LAA(Thu. 7/30) - 27,598 LAA(Wed. 7/29) - 31,272 LAA(Tue. 7/28) - 24,031 BOS(Thu. 7/23) - 30,748 BOS(Wed. 7/22) - 31,104 BOS(Tue. 7/21) - 26,913 TEX(Sun. 7/19) - 36,532 TEX(Sat. 7/18) - 41,941 TEX(Fr. 7/17) - 36,904 KC(Wed. 7/1) - 25,848 KC(Tue. 6/30) - 24,642 KC(Mon. 6/29) - 20,419 NYY(Sun. 6/28) - 31,961 NYY(Sat. 6/27) - 41,133 NYY(Fri. 6/26) - 37,748 NYY(Thu. 6/25) - 28,643 COL(Tue. 6/16) - 22,245 COL(Mon. 6/15) - 21,820 SEA(Sun. 6/14) - 29,153 SEA(Sat. 6/13) - 36,762 SEA(Fri. 6/12) - 32,173 --------------------------- BAL(Thu. 6/4) - 20,219 BAL(Wed. 6/3) - 20,305 BAL(Tue. 6/2) - 18,730 BAL(Mon. 6/1) - 17,259 CWS(Sun. 5/31) - 27,423 CWS(Sat. 5/30) - 29,720 CWS(Fri. 5/29) - 25,957 OAK(Wed. 5/20) - 21,066 OAK(Tue. 5/19) - 17,575 OAK(Mon. 5/18) - 21,724 TOR(Sun. 5/17) - 25,307 TOR(Sat. 5/16) - 27,102 TOR(Fri. 5/15) - 21,653 TOR(Thu. 5/14) - 15,777 SF(Wed. 5/13) - 20,725 SF(Tue. 5/12) - 20,468 TEX(Wed. 5/6) - 22,230 TEX(Tue. 5/5) - 20,951 TEX(Mon. 5/4) - 17,597 SEA(Sun. 5/3) - 25,283 SEA(Sat. 5/2) - 24,435 SEA(Fri. 5/1) - 21,834 SEA(Thu. 4/30) - 19,108 LAA(Sun. 4/19) - 24,254 LAA(Sat. 4/18) - 28,209 LAA(Fri. 4/17) - 22,660 OAK(Wed. 4/15) - 19,777 OAK(Tue. 4/14) - 18,935 OAK(Mon. 4/13) - 19,279 CLE(Thu. 4/9) - 22,593 CLE(Wed. 4/8) - 23,078 CLE(Mon. 4/6) - 43,753
You can't look at it without context. Attendance is virtually set in the offseason by the size of season ticket base. The Astros and Mets have the greatest change in attendance of any 2 teams in the league, regardless. You're not going to start selling out games when you season ticket base is that low. It just doesn't work like that...anywhere. They're averaging about 5,000 more tickets sold per game than last year on walkups alone. The Mets are averaging about 4,000 more tickets sold per game than last year. Those are exceptional numbers...in the Astros case, that's nearly a 25% increase. On the heels of how poorly they performed over the last few years -- one of the worst stretch of years seen by any team in MLB history -- that's remarkable. I'm sure both the Rangers and Astros would like to see more people showing up....but when you finish in last place or finish as the Astros have over the last few years, it's really hard to get people motivated in an offseason to create your season ticket base. It will be very different for the Astros next season, I suspect.
Absolutely. That would be about 2.6 million fans going through the turnstiles...which would put them around 10th in the league.
