{"id":159981,"date":"2025-09-21T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159981\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:38:09","slug":"dodgers-become-10th-mlb-team-to-draw-4-million-fans-in-a-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159981\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers become 10th MLB team to draw 4 million fans in a season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 21, 2025, 04:19 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fb7cf413-5156-9fc2-abe0-2273b89f70db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> say they&#8217;ve drawn 4 million fans this season for the first time in franchise history, becoming just the 10th team in major league history to reach that mark.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles is the first MLB team to draw 4 million fans since the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d08426cc-bf13-5d7b-5217-6d4662019bc6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2b9cedf3-ce60-0bcf-fafe-8cd055255685\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees<\/a> did it in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The defending World Series champion Dodgers said they topped the mark in their regular-season home finale against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e072b79c-4fa1-3a55-bdcd-4d7d9734d79b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sf\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For these fans to post and show up every day, it&#8217;s incredible,&#8221; manager Dave Roberts said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a reason I feel we have the best fans in sports. The numbers speak to it. You can tell this past weekend, the emotion of the fans and how the players responded. It&#8217;s been great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees drew 4 million fans from 2005 to 2008 in each of their final four years at the old Yankee Stadium, while the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0151aed9-9f11-ceae-195d-180ca603b64a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> did it in 1991, 1992 and 1993. The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f3f1ba71-05f1-a49a-0363-3b1d8e0db4cf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> also hit the mark in 1993 while playing at cavernous Mile High Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers list the capacity of Dodger Stadium, which opened in 1962, at an MLB-high 56,000. They&#8217;ve led the major leagues in attendance in 12 of the past 13 seasons since 2013, falling short only in 2020 amid restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers have clinched a postseason berth for the 13th consecutive year since 2013, matching the second-longest playoff streak in baseball history during a stretch that includes two World Series championships and four NL pennants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 21, 2025, 04:19 PM ET LOS ANGELES &#8212; The Los Angeles Dodgers say they&#8217;ve drawn 4 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-159981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}