Recent Athletics game outsold by a shocking number of MiLB games

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Recent Athletics game outsold by a shocking number of minor league games

Originally posted on Sportsnaut | By Jason Burgos | Last updated 4/6/23

The Oakland Athletics have long been known for their sparse crowds, but in the 2023 season, they hit a new low. The team was outdrawn by nearly a dozen minor league clubs.

On Tuesday, when attendance for the Athletics game against the Cleveland Guardians was a putrid 3,407 in a stadium that has a capacity of 46,847. It’s a horrid number for a professional sports team, yet it gets much worse than that.

No matter how bad professional game attendance is, it’s still usually far better than minor league games which take place in small towns and feature a bunch of unknown prospects. However, that wasn’t the case on Tuesday as not one, not two, not three, but 11 Triple-A games that day sold more tickets than the Athletics clash with the Guardians.

Sporting News posted the details, which you can find below.

Attendance for baseball games on April 4, 2023

AAA game: 9548
AAA game: 9229
AAA game: 8305
AAA game: 8222
AAA game: 6950
AAA game: 6915
AAA game: 6639
AAA game: 6382
AAA game: 5953
AAA game: 5172
AAA game: 3835
Oakland A's: 3407
AAA game: 3200
AAA game: 2453

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— Sporting News MLB (@sn_mlb) April 5, 2023

You will notice that four of the Triple-A games noted actually pulled in twice as many fans as the Athletics did for their game earlier this week. The stat takes the team’s continued poor showing in ticket sales to a new low.

It has been speculated for several years that the organization’s owner is looking to find a way to get the team to Las Vegas in the near future as Sin City continues to build a reputation as a new hub for professional sports teams.

This article first appeared on Sportsnaut and was syndicated with permission.

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