The Tampa Bay Rays say standing room only tickets remain for World Series Games 3 and 4 at Tropicana Field, although several thousand can be purchased through secondary sellers.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re not cheap, although fans in Milwaukee might argue otherwise.<\/p>\n
The Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers begin the best-of-seven matchup at American Family Field in Milwaukee Friday and Saturday. The series moves to St. Petersburg for three scheduled games beginning Monday.<\/p>\n
According to SeatData.io, which tracks secondary ticket prices, demand for tickets is \u201cextreme\u201d in both cities.<\/p>\n
The Rays\u2019 website lists only standing-room only in center field for $800, plus another $81.60 in fees. But if you want to sit, you\u2019ll have to try secondary-market platforms like Seat Geek, StubHub, Ticketmaster or Game Time.<\/p>\n
As of Thursday morning, SeatData.io listed a median asking price of $1,456 for Game 3, with the least expensive tickets starting at $720. For Tuesday\u2019s Game 4, the median was $1,442, with get-in prices starting at $759.<\/p>\n
These prices don\u2019t include fee add-ons. And, of course, they will change depending on supply and demand.<\/p>\n
Game 5 would be played Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the Trop if neither team sweeps the series. The Rays\u2019 website lists several thousand 300-level tickets starting at $920, along with standing-room only. SeatData.io listed a median price of $1,683, with the lowest \u201cget-in\u201d cost of $710.<\/p>\n
Priced out in Milwaukee<\/p>\n
Those are bargains if you want to attend any of the games at Milwaukee\u2019s 41,900-seat American Family Field, which sold out all four scheduled games before the Rays had clinched their World Series spot by winning the American League pennant Monday.<\/p>\n
Again, secondary markets have several thousand seats available to watch the Brewers\u2019 first World Series appearance in 44 years.<\/p>\n
Thursday morning, SeatData.io showed the Game 1 median asking price at $5,731, with the lowest ticket starting at $2,091. Game 2\u2019s median cost was $4,646 and the lowest \u201cget-in\u201d ticket will set someone back $1,890.<\/p>\n
The price gap is striking enough that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports droves of Brewers fans are flying south to see their team. (The math: airfare of $700, three-night hotel stay $600 and the $1,456 median ticket price.)<\/p>\n
Why the big discrepancy? Start with Milwaukee\u2019s four-decade wait for another World Series appearance, while the Rays are making their third visit in less than 20 years.<\/p>\n
Brewers officials also said before the team clinched the National League pennant that inventory available for individual purchase would be \u201cextremely limited,\u201d with season-ticket holders given priority access to postseason tickets.<\/p>\n
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Cash appreciates the atmosphere<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay\u2019s 2020 appearance took place at a neutral site in Arlington, Texas, because of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Tropicana Field lists its capacity at just over 31,000 including the 300 level, which is typically closed during the regular season. With standing room admission, there have been three crowds over 40,000 and two others over 31,000 during the playoffs.<\/p>\n
The prospect of a packed Trop has special meaning for Rays manager Kevin Cash, who said after Tampa Bay clinched the AL Championship Series that the atmosphere during the team\u2019s postseason run had been among the best he had experienced.<\/p>\n
\u201c2020 was as special as any season I\u2019ve been a part of,\u201d Cash said. \u201cBut saying that, we didn\u2019t have 40,000 people behind us. And excited to see what those 40,000 people can bring on Games 3, 4 and 5, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Timeless Ticket\u2019<\/p>\n
While the Rays\u2019 postseason ticket sales have had few problems, the Brewers had to deal with one unforeseen miscue.<\/p>\n
The team ran a promotion over a decade ago offering fans a \u201cTimeless Ticket\u201d granting them admission to any game in the future if they paid $1,000. Now that the Brewers are in the World Series for the first time since 1982, several hundred fans who took that deal were eager to redeem those tickets they bought in 2015.<\/p>\n
That has led to some complications. Some fans say they weren\u2019t offered the good seats they were promised for the World Series. Brewers president of business operations Rick Schlesinger says the team made mistakes in its \u201cinternal communications on the logistics of fulfilling the requests.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we were able to accommodate all with seats, we received feedback from some that they were unhappy with their seat locations,\u201d Schlesinger said. \u201cClearly, even with extraordinary limitations on available seats, we did not live up to the spirit of the program, and we have been working through a resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rick Mayer is a reporter with WUSF, the bay area\u2019s NPR affiliate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays say standing room only tickets remain for World Series Games 3 and 4 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-434874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}