Category: Baseball
Are We Watching Chapter Three of the Orioles Relocation Story?
The 2018 season for the Baltimore Orioles could not be going any worse at this point. The Orioles have one of the worst records in baseball, and attendance is floundering. As of the completion of the series against the Royals last week (May 10th), the O’s have had only six games with more than 20,000…
2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, and Weather, Week of 5/13/18: Summer is Heating Up | Below the Box Score
Attendance up slightly while time of game ticked up. Let’s take a look at this week’s Below the Box Score: Tensions remain low across the league with only three ejections, keeping the NL ahead of the AL by a margin of eight on the full season. Is it too much to ask for a few…
2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, and Weather, Week of 5/6/18: John Gibbons Ejection Mania! | Below the Box Score
John Gibbons has had enough of the National League leading the ejections race, and he’s doing something about it. Gibbons accounted for 60% of this week’s ejections, getting rung in three separate games of the eight played by the Blue Jays on the week. John may not be the hero the AL needs right now,…
2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, and Weather, Week of 4/29/18: Another Bad Attendance Week | Below the Box Score
Another week of dismal MLB attendance. The Miami Marlins couldn’t break 6,000 on a Friday. Insert obligatory Jeets joke here. Wow. So with that, the Marlins were outdrawn by FIFTY NINE minor league games last week. But they weren’t the only ones outdrawn by minor league teams: MLB teams outdrawn by AAA teams: Kansas City (below…
2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, and Weather, Week of 4/22/18: The Oakland Single As? | Below the Box Score
Only three ejections this week, as level heads prevail, which means that the focus this week is on the attendance. Or, I suppose I should say: the lack thereof. In fact, there was a team that didn’t draw over 10,000 fans once this week in three home games. Let’s get down to business. Attendance was,…
Below the Box Score: 2018 MLB Attendance, Weather, and Ejections. April 16: Eleven Ejections!
We are in the heat of things thanks to a couple of brawls on Wednesday. Between the Padres-Rockies game and the Red Sox-Yankees game, there were NINE ejections, nearly doubling the season total in one afternoon. But that wasn’t the only excitement this week, let’s take a look. The Miami Marlins made the news…
Below the Box Score: 2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, & Weather. April 8: NL Ejection Runaway!
Our first full week of the season and it feels like we’re fully back in the swing of things. Besides some weird things regarding scheduling due to MLB’s wishes to give home team’s a day off mid series to protect home openers, everything looks as it should this week. With one notable exception. For the…
Below the Box Score, 2018 MLB Attendance, Ejections, and Weather: Opening Day!
A new season is upon us, and it’s time again to look at what’s happening in the wonderful world of weather, attendance, and ejectons. We’re excited to have you back for the 2018 season, and have spent some of the offseason updating our data sources which should mean more reliable data for the full season.…
Below The Box Score, Week of 9/18: A New Longest Game of the Year!
After setting the season record for longest game of the year last week in the Red Sox and Blue Jays going 19 innings, but the Red Sox decided that six hours was not good enough. This week they beat the Rays 13-6 in 15 innings, but managed to drag the game on for 6:05, five…
Below the Box Score, Week of 9/11/17: Destroying The Lowest Attendance of the Year
Well, the Rays have done it again: a new low attendance mark on the season. And the season before that. And the one before that. All the way back to 2006, no team has drawn fewer than 8,000 fans (excluding hurricane-moved games and empty stadium games due to riots). The Rays on Tuesday went way…
Below the Box Score, Week of 9/4: Labor Day Attendance Surprises!
With Labor Day upon us, and the expanded rosters of September have come, not changing average time of game much, luckily. However, with many teams’ fate decided, attendance had some surprises this week. Let’s take a look: With the Reds, White Sox, Orioles, Athletics, Phillies, Mariners, Marlins, Pirates, and Diamondbacks all having a game of…