The World Collection is ready: the Dodgers towards the New York Yankees, that includes two of baseball’s three greatest spenders.
Additionally a few of baseball’s greatest spenders: followers shopping for tickets for the World Collection.
Resale costs soared Monday, on the day after the Dodgers clinched their spot within the World Collection. The Fall Traditional matchup is essentially the most storied in baseball historical past, within the two most populated cities in the US.
The World Collection opens Friday. The underside line at Dodger Stadium: Tickets for 2 in all probability will price you not less than $2,500.
On Monday afternoon, the minimal worth for a Recreation 1 ticket on StubHub was $1,326, up 23% from Sunday night time. The minimal worth for any of the 4 potential video games at Dodger Stadium: $1,268.
The Dodgers offered out the tickets obtainable by way of their web site. They management a lot of the resale marketplace for their tickets, so costs often don’t range considerably amongst websites. The minimal worth for any recreation at Dodger Stadium on Vivid Seats, one other resale web site: $1,202.
StubHub mentioned Monday its gross sales income for this yr’s World Collection already exceeds its gross sales income for final yr’s Arizona Diamondbacks-Texas Rangers World Collection, regardless that this collection doesn’t begin for 4 days, and already is 4 occasions greater than the corporate generated for the 2022 Houston Astros-Philadelphia Phillies World Collection.
On this collection, the ticket costs at Dodger Stadium are a relative cut price. The Yankees haven’t appeared within the World Collection since 2009; the Dodgers are making their fourth look since then.
On Monday afternoon, this was the bottom Vivid Seats ticket worth for Recreation 3, the primary recreation at Yankee Stadium: $1,536.
That was for a ticket, not a seat. The ticket is standing room solely.
