World Series Ticket Prices Rise as Dodgers Face Yankees

The stage is set for this World Series: The Dodgers are up against the New York Yankees, two of baseball’s three highest-spending teams.

And this doesn’t just apply to teams; Fans are also spending big on tickets for this highly anticipated match.

This year’s tickets World Series The deal between the Yankees and Dodgers is shaping up to be the most expensive ever. The average price on the secondary market is around $1,703, just breaking the 2016 record. To put it in perspective, that’s more than double last year’s average ticket price, according to retailer TickPick.

StubHub told the Los Angeles Times on Monday that this year’s World Series sales revenue has already surpassed last year’s Arizona Diamondbacks-Texas Rangers World Series sales revenue, even though that series didn’t start for four days. That’s also already four times more than the company produced for the 2022 Houston Astros-Philadelphia Phillies World Series.

For fans heading to Dodger Stadium for this series, ticket prices may seem cheap compared to Yankee Stadium. While the Yankees haven’t made the World Series since 2009, this is the Dodgers’ fourth outing since then.

As of Monday afternoon, the cheapest ticket for Game 3 at Yankee Stadium was $1,536 from Vivid Seats, and that’s standing room only, not an actual seat.

There are several reasons why ticket prices are so high. Both Dodgers and the Yankees hail from the two largest markets in the United States and boast some of baseball’s biggest names, including Los Angeles’ Shohei Ohtani and New York’s Aaron Judge. Moreover, these two teams have met in the World Series for the first time in more than 40 years, since 1981.

All of this is happening despite Dodger Stadium with a capacity of 56,000, MLB’s largest, and Yankee Stadium with 46,543 seats.

While the MLB, Dodgers, and Yankees use different ticket management strategies, the World Series’ resale market tends to be less regulated and more organic compared to other major sporting events such as the Super Bowl.

“You have the two biggest markets and the big stars, so those are very strong drivers. This has also been a drought for the Yankees,” said TicketIQ founder and CEO Jesse Lawrence. He told Front Office Sportsin part referring to the team’s now-ending 15-year absence from the World Series. “The New York market is really coming off the edge and creating a lot of demand.”