A World Series pitting two of Major League Baseball’s glamour franchises is shaping up to be the priciest in recent memory.
Fans can fork over $1,514 to watch the Yankees and Dodgers — and not even get a seat. That’s the lowest price on TickPick for a standing-room-only ticket to Game 3 on Monday at Yankee Stadium.
As of Wednesday, the average resale ticket price to attend Friday’s Game 1 at Dodger Stadium was $1,731 on SeatGeek, $1,703 on TickPick and $1,682 on Vivid Seats. That makes the 2024 World Series the most expensive on record, TickPick said.
The cheapest Game 1 tickets sold by TickPick as of Wednesday were a set of six seats down the left-field line going for $951 each. That’s more than double the lowest-priced Game 1 ticket sold for any of the previous five World Series, according to what TickPick head of content Kyle Zorn tweeted Wednesday morning.
Cheapest ticket sold to G1 of World Series last five years:
2023 (D-Backs @ Rangers): $305
2022 (Phillies @ Astros): $445
2021 (Braves @ Astros): $169
2020 (Rays @ Dodgers): $250 **
2019 (Nationals @ Astros): $407Cheapest on @tickpick to G1 in 2024: pic.twitter.com/5YFHxfsOJL
— Kyle Zorn (@Kyle_Zorn) October 23, 2024
This World Series is on pace to be the best-selling in StubHub’s’s 24-year history, the company said. By Tuesday morning, Stubhub’s sales revenue had already surpassed final sales revenue from last year’s Diamondbacks-Rangers World Series, even though Friday’s opening game was still more than 72 hours away.
“That’s completely unheard of,” StubHub spokesperson Adam Budelli told Yahoo Sports.
The soaring resale ticket prices reflect the allure of a Dodgers-Yankees Fall Classic. These two big-market juggernauts have combined to make 61 World Series appearances and pile up 28 championships, 21 by the Yankees and seven by the Dodgers.
Also impactful is the star power boasted by both the Dodgers and Yankees. With Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, the teams have a combined five former league MVPs, a World Series record, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
“It’s kind of the perfect storm to drive what I’m sure will be record numbers on TV and certainly are record numbers from a ticket-selling perspective,” Budelli said.
The demand for tickets is particularly impressive considering 56,000-seat Dodger Stadium is baseball’s second highest-capacity venue and 46,537-seat Yankee Stadium is sixth. A boost has come from Ohtani-crazed Japan, which Budelli said has purchased the most tickets of any non-U.S. country.
When asked if Dodgers-Yankees was the most appealing possible World Series matchup, Budelli said he thinks so for TV ratings. From the standpoint of ticket demand, Budelli wonders if a Subway Series between the Yankees and Mets might have been even more lucrative.
Said Budelli, “To have both fan bases within subway-taxi-walking distance of both stadiums, that would have been very interesting to follow.”
