Tuesday night's Game 6 ratings were 66% better than the last World Series Game 6 played, in 2014.
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TV ratings on Fox, which is broadcasting the games, are up 23% with adults ages 18 to 49 compared to the previous 10 World Series. Meanwhile, ticket sellers are hardly the only business ventures cashing in on the World Series in a huge way. The next most expensive appears to be last summer's NBA Finals Game 7, when the Cleveland Cavaliers faced the Golden State Warriors in a championship-deciding game that led sellers to push asking prices up to an average of $3,000, with average sales prices hitting roughly $2,000. Tonight's ticket prices are not merely the most expensive in World Series history-they're the most expensive Game 7 tickets in all sports history. Both figures are more than twice as expensive as the next priciest World Series game played over the past seven years: Ticket prices for Game 2 in the 2010 World Series, pitting the San Francisco Giants versus the Texas Rangers, were listed at an average of $1,787 and sold at an average of $1,147. TicketIQ, a ticket resale and research site that's been carefully tracking World Series prices, says that right after the Cubs won Game 6, the average asking price for a Game 7 ticket was $4,700, and the average sales price was $2,919. But to get more than one together will require $2,548.25 per ticket." To get two seats together, however, will start at $1,934," reported early on Wednesday."Bleacher seats are starting at $2,107.16. "Tickets to get a seat in Progressive Field will start at $1,863.80 per person in the upper deck. If you want an actual seat during the game, expect to pay at least double that. Cleveland Indians: A Money-Focused Look at the World Series At last check on ticket resale sites like StubHub and Vivid Seats, the cheapest individual tickets-for standing room only admission-for tonight's game at Progressive Field were starting at roughly $750 to $850. Even after last-minute price drops, however, both the asking and actual sales prices were by far the highest ever for World Series games.įor that matter, the baseball gods appear to be on the side of all kinds of the forces making money on the World Series, what with the Cubs winning the last two games to force a Game 7 tonight in Cleveland. Ticket prices on the secondary market for the games in Cubs-crazed Chicago have been listed at an average of over $6,000 in the lead up to the series.Īs the first pitch of each game at Chicago's Wrigley Field drew nearer, prices declined, with average list prices dipping to a bit over $5,000 and average sales prices ranging from $2,300 to $3,000, according to TicketIQ. And sure enough, they've been insane on a historic level. The series features the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, two championship-deprived franchises that haven't won Major League Baseball titles since 19, respectively.īased on how long fans have waited for their teams to win it all, we also had a pretty good idea that World Series ticket prices would be insane. WATCH ALL THREE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES (US, INTERNATIONAL, AND WORLD) ON FOX SPORTS 2, FOX SPORTS GO, AND MLB.We knew going in that this year's World Series would be historic. LISTEN TO EVERY GAME VIA STREAMING RADIO AT SFMSPORTS.NET Click here to go directly to the channel. Go to to register and follow the Cal, Sr. Stream every Cal Ripken World Series game leading up to Championship Weekend live on your mobile device on the Kiswe app.