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MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/27: Attendance Plummets!
Teams really outdid themselves last week trying to attract fewer fans than normal. The Marlins continued to dominate the game, however, with only 6,587 showing up to see the Braves on Thursday. However, the A’s, Rays, Pirates, and White Sox also joined the Marlins in being outdrawn by AAA teams on the week. The twist? …
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/20: The NL Strikes Back!
The National League strikes back this week with seven ejections to the AL’s one, meaning we once again have separation in the season ejection rate. Attendance continued to be high, reaching the highest level of the season, with no games under 10,000 in attendance all week! Only six teams managed below 20,000, while seven managed…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/13: Tempers Flair
It was the highest ejection week in the last three months last week, with eight ejections across the bigs last week. The American League continues its gradual cut into the NL lead, reducing the margin to NL 60, AL 58 after this week. The NL looking to win the ejections race for the first time…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 8/5: Dog Days
The dog days of summer are here again, and with it we have games in brutal heat and everyone too hot to argue balls and strikes. The lowest ejection week of the season, with only three getting sent to the showers early. Only three teams averaged below 70 degrees on the week, with half the…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/30: Full Stadium Mania
Attendance was great last week, with a third of the league reporting a game with greater than 40,000 in attendance. Given that the American League playoffs seem to already be set at the end of July, this is particularly impressive. As for the bad…. another Marlins home stand. And with that, the Marlins once again…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/23: Lots of Records!
A short update this week, with the All-Star break limiting the number of games played on the week, but not the number of records set! Only the Rays were outdrawn by a handful of minor league teams last week, a big improvement over most weeks. The short overview: MLB teams outdrawn by AAA teams: Tampa (outdrawn…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/16: How Low Can We Go?
Once again the Marlins were the only team to be outdrawn by minor league teams last week. But it gets worse. The Miami Marlins are the first team since AMSTS has tracked MLB and MiLB attendance to ever be outdrawn by a Rookie League team in the same week. The Ogden Raptors drew 5,368 on…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/9: Marlins Do It Again
Nobody last week was outdrawn by a minor league team! This is great! Well…. Everyone except the Marlins. And boy, did they get outdrawn by minor league teams again this week. With a low of 6,004 fans, the Marlins were outdrawn by ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE minor league games last week. This week also got the…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 7/2: Marlins Gonna Marlin
The Marlins are at it again, drawing only 6,105 fans in attendance to a game against the Diamondbacks last week. To put that in perspective, the lowest attended MLB game not involving the Marlins last week drew over double that when the Rays put 12,305 paying customers through the turnstiles. To put that in even…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 6/18: Double Digit Ejections!
Tempers finally have flared in the past two weeks as we’ve gone from 56 ejections to 76 in no time flat. This week alone had eleven ejections, including the Dodgers getting three ejected in one game. This didn’t do much to help the American League, who has held the ejection crown since we started tracking this…
MLB 2018 Ejections, Attendance & Weather – Week of 6/18: Ejections Aplenty!
All good things must come to an end. After a slow start that led to me complaining last week that there weren’t enough ejections, MLB umpires listened to AMSTS and sent NINE players/coaches to the showers early this week, the high water mark of the year. The NL extended its lead slightly by getting rung…
MLB 2018 Attendance, Ejections & Weather – Week of 6/10: Marlins Outdraw Oakland!
A big round of applause due to the Miami Marlins this week, as they hosted a three game series in which every single game had more than 10,000 in attendance. That gave the crown this week to the Oakland A’s who managed only below 8,000 on Thursday against the Royals. Impressively, only seven teams drew…