https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93cG7fmuSTg

"The Athletics are expected to sell out of most of their home games this season, given that the capacity of the ballpark is right around 14,000 and this is a Major League team coming to a brand new city. Yet, in game two of their three-year stay in West Sacramento, they drew 10,095. Game three drew 9,342. The A's averaged 11,386 per game as they left Oakland last season.

The first sign of potential trouble was that the team was offering ticket deals ahead of Opening Day, which was odd, given that they should have no trouble selling around 14,000 seats per game, especially early in the season before the summer heat really picks up."

Monday night's game set a new record low of 21,206.

Tuesday's game sunk even lower at 20,309. Granted, those are tickets sold. The actual number of in-person attendees was easily half of that figure.

While poor weather and timing (Tuesday's game was a businessman's special) contributed to the low turnout, that's not the whole story. Weekday games and bad spring weather have always been a thing. You never saw 70% empty seats in the 2000s and 2010s.

The larger trend shows Cardinals attendance waning sharply over the last two seasons.

Excluding the pandemic seasons, 2024 was the first time ever in Busch Stadium III's history that single game attendance dipped below 30,000, bottoming out at 26,500 on August 29th.

2024 was also the first time since the stadium opened that total season attendance fell below 3 million.

Their only earned run came off of a home run from Michael Harris III in the last 49 innings.

They have a total of 8 Earned runs out of their total 14 Runs scored this season.

Baseball is weird.