Tag: empty stadiums
Fourteen Ejected As Tempers Flare, A Six Hour Epic Settled by Position Player Pitching – BtBS, Week of 7/4
Finally! Ejections, and plenty of them. With 14 last week, the second highest number of ejections in a week this season, the umpires league-wide kept themselves busy. The high for the week belonged to both the Blue Jays, who have an astonishing 14 ejections on the season thus far, and the Pirates, who have the…
Rockies Giving Fans Value For The Money, Rangers Pack The House – Below the Box Score, Week of 6/27
If you had places to be this week, hopefully you were not a fan of Colorado baseball. In all seven games this week, the Rockies averaged a 3:40 length of game. The twist? Not one single extra inning game. With 102 runs over seven games, nobody got home from a Rockies game in shorter than 3:17 this…
AL Dominates Ejections Race While Cleveland Still Can’t Get People To Show Up: Below the Box Score, Week of 5/23
Cooler heads have prevailed this week, as only nine ejections were recorded to last week’s 17. Interestingly, the AL continues to dominate, having almost twice as many ejections as the NL, with a score of 37-19. This week the Blue Jays once again took center (or rather, centre) stage with three ejections in three separate incidents,…
Below The Box Score: Twelve Ejections & Cleveland Sets Record Low Attendance – Week of 5/9
The interesting stat of the week? 12 ejections, ten of which were in the American League, giving the league a commanding lead in season ejections, 18-11. Secondarily, the story remains Cleveland’s terrible attendance. At this point, there have been three games this entire MLB season with fewer than 10,000 fans and all three took…
Below the Box Score: Fast Baseball – A new low! Week of 5/2
The story this week is FAST BASEBALL, with lots of new records being set this week in regards to pace of play. First off, the Dodgers and Padres played on Sunday and completed the entire ordeal in a mere 127 minutes, becoming the quickest game of the year so far. This was a 1-0…
Below the Box Score – A Weekly Review of Attendance, Weather, Pace, and Ejections – Week of 4/18
April is a great time for baseball, if you like rain delays and wild temperature swings. This week’s low temperature demonstrates how volatile the springtime is. In Minnesota, Wednesday’s game was a comfortable 68 degrees for an 8 PM start. The very next day, at 1 PM, the temperatures had dropped down to a chilly…
Below the Box Score – A Weekly Look at the Lesser Watched Statistics in Baseball
Editor note: Below the Box Score is a new weekly recurring segment that will discuss the lesser analyzed portions of the box score: namely attendance, time of game, weather, and ejections. We hope you enjoy. Opening Day is always an exciting one, with fans ready for Summer, but often times, the hype of Opening Day…
The Only Two New Professional Baseball Stadiums for the 2016 Season
The construction boom of the 1990s and 2000s has come to a complete halt. Back then, with access to easy funding and a strong economy led to 22 of the 30 MLB stadiums being built in the last 25 years. At the boom’s peak, from 1993-2003, 86 Minor League Baseball stadiums were built at a total cost…
NCAA Conference Tournament Attendance: The embarrassing lows
It’s finally tournament time, but in the last week of the season we get to pile everyone on a bus, drive to the nearest major metropolitan area and watch the teams battle it out in their respective conference tournaments. Lots of fans were excited, but one pair of fans seemingly less so. Which brings us…
NCAA Basketball Attendance, Week 18: The Highest and Lowest Attended Games
It’s the last week of the regular season this year in college basketball, so naturally attendance is up as varying schools host their senior night festivities. As such, attendance at the big schools tends to rise while those at the bottom never see too much of a bump, as this week we have the same…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 17: The Highs and Lows
As we get closer to Conference and NCAA Tournament time, fan interest is starting to gain even more momentum. Attendance this week was up 4% with average attendance north of 5,000 for the first time this season. In addition, fewer games were played with fewer than 1,000 in attendance this week: Number of games drawing…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 16: The Winners and Losers
Attendance, for the most part, has steadied out through February, as school is in session, and weather has been fairly consistent, preventing low attendances across college basketball. This week, the numbers were up around 3% over last week, and the lowest attended game still had over 300 people, which should drop off as we get…