A World Series that pits two of Major League Baseball’s glamorous franchises against each other is shaping up to be the most expensive in recent times.
Fans can shell out more than $1,514 to see the Yankees and Dodgers and not even get a seat. That is the lowest price on TickPick for a standing-room ticket to Game 3 on Monday at Yankee Stadium.
As of Wednesday, the average resale price for tickets to 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 ever recorded. TickPick said.
The cheapest Game 1 tickets sold by TickPick as of Wednesday were a six-seat game down the left field line for $951 each. That’s more than double the cheapest ticket sold for Game 1 of any of the previous five World Series, according to what TickPick chief content officer Kyle Zorn tweeted Wednesday morning.
Cheapest ticket sold to G1 of the World Series in the last five years:
2023 (D-Backs @ Rangers): $305
2022 (Phillies @ Astros): $445
2021 (Braves @ Astros): $169
2020 (Rays @ Dodgers): $250 **
2019 (Nationals @ Astros): $407Cheaper in @tickpick to G1 in 2024: pic.twitter.com/5YFHxfsOJL
—Kyle Zorn (@Kyle_Zorn) October 23, 2024
This World Series is on track to be the best-selling in StubHub’s 24-year history, the company said. By Tuesday morning, Stubhub’s sales revenue had already surpassed the 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.
Rising resale ticket prices reflect the appeal of a Dodgers-Yankees Fall Classic. These two big-market giants have combined to make 61 World Series appearances and amass 28 championships, 21 for the Yankees and seven for the Dodgers.
Also impressive is the star power that both the Dodgers and Yankees boast. With Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, the teams have five former league MVPs combined, a World Series record, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
“It’s kind of a perfect storm to drive what I’m sure will be record numbers on television and certainly are record numbers from a ticket sales perspective,” Budelli said.
Demand for tickets is particularly impressive considering that Dodger Stadium, with 56,000 seats, is the second largest capacity baseball venue and Yankee Stadium, with 46,537 seats, is the sixth. One boost has come from Ohtani-crazed Japan, which Budelli says has bought the most tickets of any country other than the United States.
When asked if Dodgers-Yankees is the most attractive matchup possible in the World Series, Budelli said he thinks so for television ratings. From a ticket demand standpoint, he wondered if a Subway Series between the Yankees and Mets might have been even more lucrative.
Budelli said: “It would have been very interesting to have both fan bases within walking distance of both stadiums, a short subway or taxi ride away.”