Weekend attendance MLB’s highest before June since ’17

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Published 22.05.2023
Weekend attendance MLB’s highest before June since ’17
MLB’s weekend attendance highest since 2017

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MLB simply had considered one of its greatest early-season weekends in years.

Last weekend’s video games drew a complete attendance of 1,518,016 followers from Friday by means of Sunday — MLB’s finest weekend attendance in April or May in over six years.

The final weekend with a better attendance earlier than the beginning of June was the weekend of April 7-9, 2017, which had an attendance of 1,550,987.

Sunday was the excessive level of the weekend league-wide, as 546,569 followers attended the complete slate of video games, with all 30 groups in motion and the Mets and Guardians enjoying a doubleheader.

That made it the highest-attended single day of MLB video games since Oct. 1 of final season, which was the Saturday of the ultimate weekend of the common season and drew 581,314 complete followers.

Sunday was additionally MLB’s highest-attended day earlier than the beginning of June since Opening Day 2019, which had an attendance of 604,274.

And it was the most-attended non-Opening Day throughout the first two months of the season in over 5 years. The final such day with a better mark was May 19, 2018, with a complete attendance of 558,035.

On Sunday, there have been six video games with over 40,000 followers in attendance, together with 42,138 followers turning out to see famous person Shohei Ohtani take the mound at Angel Stadium for his tenth two-way begin of the season, one of many Angels’ highest-attended video games of the yr.

The Dodgers-Cardinals collection in St. Louis was additionally a spotlight of the weekend. The collection featured the top-attended sport on every day, and people had been the highest three video games for the weekend total, together with the No. 1 sport on Saturday.

Dodgers-Cardinals attendance this weekend
Friday — 44,774
Saturday — 45,177
Sunday — 44,721
Total — 134,672

So was the Padres-Red Sox collection in San Diego. The Padres bought out all three dwelling video games over the weekend, giving them 17 sellouts in 25 video games at Petco Park this season.

Top collection this weekend by avg. attendance
Dodgers at Cardinals — 44,891
Cubs at Phillies — 42,909
Red Sox at Padres — 41,523
Mariners at Braves — 40,292
Orioles at Blue Jays — 38,580

This weekend was MLB’s highest-attended weekend total because the remaining weekend of the 2022 season, which not solely was the warmth of the postseason race however featured Albert Pujols’ remaining collection in St. Louis and Aaron Judge’s final collection at Yankee Stadium as he chased 62 dwelling runs.

That weekend drew 1,644,658 followers, however there have been additionally 46 video games performed. This weekend’s 1,518,016 attendance came to visit 45 video games, making it MLB’s highest-attended 45-game slate at any level because the weekend of June 21-23, 2019, which had an attendance of 1,575,354.