Report: Arizona D-backs home game attendance up by 7 percent this season
Sep 26, 2017, 5:44 AM | Updated: 7:59 am
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PHOENIX — The attendance rates for Arizona Diamondbacks’ home games increased by 7 percent this season compared to last, according to Phoenix Business Journal.
The team averaged 26,462 fans per game at Chase Field in downtown Phoenix, the publication said.
Despite the gains in home game attendance, the Diamondbacks still rank 18th among Major League Baseball teams in per-game attendance.
This data comes just days after the Diamondbacks clinch its first spot in the postseason since 2011, according to Arizona Sports.
The team will get home field advantage for the playoff game on Oct. 4 and will go up against either the Milwaukee Brewers, St. Louis Cardinals or Colorado Rockies.
But for Diamondbacks fans who are looking to attend the Wild Card game, they might be out of luck: Tickets to the game sold out in less than two hours, the team announced on Monday.
Wild Card tickets are sold out!
Tickets for potential NLDS games are still available at https://t.co/wErofWmZPW. https://t.co/9EIuBQ1CHK
— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) September 25, 2017
The team just has three home games left in the regular season. They will host the San Francisco Giants in a three-day series before travelling to Kansas City to play the Royals.
The baseball teams that currently lead the league in home game attendance are the Los Angeles Dodgers, with an average of 46,432 fans per game, and the St. Louis Cardinals, which draw an average of 42,520 fans per game.
