Tickets for the World Series, which begins tonight in L.A., are trading on resale markets at historically high levels despite Dodger Stadium being MLB’s largest ballpark. StubHub said its overall sales volume for Game 1 is triple the level of last year’s Game 1 in Cleveland, fueled heavily by the availability of nearly 18,000 more seats at Dodger Stadium compared to Progressive Field. StubHub added it has recorded an average ticket sales price of $1,171 and a high of $15,570 for a Dugout Club seat, more than twice than a high of $7,500 paid for a Diamond Box seat at the Indians' Progressive Field. Eighty percent of StubHub buyers of World Series tickets are from California. SeatGeek similarly said the average sales price it has tracked was $1,378 for tonight and $1,251 for tomorrow’s Game 2, with both figures up by double-digit percentages compared to $1,156 and $1,122, respectively, for Games 1-2 in Cleveland last year. All these figures easily trail the record-setting resale numbers posted in Chicago last year for the Wrigley Field World Series games that frequently topped $4,000 per ticket. But many individual secondary outlets said this was still at least the second best World Series ever. Mobile-focused outlet Gametime said Astros-Dodgers Game 1 has set a new record as its highest grossing event ever in company history, with gross sales nearly quadrupling prior high marks of Game 5 of this year’s NBA Finals and last year’s Copa America quarterfinals at Levi’s Stadium. Gametime’s average sales price for Game 1 is $1,274 per ticket, a surprisingly high figure given the company’s more millennial-leaning audience. “We’re seeing numbers for this event frankly we’ve never seen,” said Gametime Head of Communications Sean Pate. “It’s been nothing short of incredible.”
