Yankees-Dodgers World Series Tickets Are the Most Expensive Ever
If you want to catch the World Series this year, you’ll have to pay a pretty penny.
Tickets for the historic matchup between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers are the priciest ever for a Fall Classic. The highly anticipated East Coast-West Coast face-off, which kicks off on Friday night in Los Angeles, has an average price of $1,700 on the reseller site TickPick, Bloomberg reported. For reference, it cost around $776 to see the Texas Rangers versus the Arizona Diamondbacks last year; the previous high was achieved in 2016, when entry to the Chicago Cubs vs. Cleveland series reached an average of $1,691.
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Currently, the get-in price for Game 1 is roughly $975. However, when the two teams travel to the Bronx for the first time on Monday, Game 3 is being forecasted as the most expensive in World Series history, with average prices hovering at $2,000 on the secondary market. If you don’t mind standing, you can get in for about $1,500—the cheapest for this year’s series. However, for prime seats near the Yankees dugout, or even better, behind home plate, you’ll have to drop upwards of $20,000, according to StubHub.
“These two franchises are among the most storied in the league and all of sports,” Jack Slingland, TickPick’s senior vice president of operations, told Bloomberg. “It’s what many fans would consider a dream matchup.”
The demand for tickets is especially high considering the teams haven’t played each other in the World Series for 43 years. Adding to the intrigue is the fact that both franchises hail from the league’s two biggest markets. The Dodgers nabbed a World Series win four years ago and have seven championship titles under their belt. Interestingly, StubHub found that demand for the games in New York is about 40 percent higher than Los Angeles. Despite winning 27 titles—the most of any team in MLB history—the Yanks haven’t made it to the World Series since 2009.
Of course, then there’s the showdown between two of baseball’s biggest players. Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit 58 home runs this season, while Dodgers megastar Shoehi Ohatani became the inaugural member of the MLB’s 50-50 club when he hit 50 homers and nabbed 50 stolen bases in one season. The milestone ball recently set a record of its own when it hammered down for $4.39 million during an auction with Goldin on Tuesday night.
We’ll have to tune in to see if any other records are broken during the Yankees-Dodgers matchup.
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