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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 9/4: 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…
Below the Box Score, Week of 8/27/17: Rays Go Sub 8,300!
Having seen the A’s recent attempts at usurping the “Worst attendance in baseball” title from the Rays, Tampa set the bar high this week, by having only 8,264 fans show up for Wednesday’s game against the Blue Jays. That was good enough for not only the season low (by over 500 fans) but also the…
Below the Box Score: Week of 8/21: Another Sub-10k Game in Oakland!
Not to be outdone by the Rays recent attendance struggles, the Athletics opened up this week drawing a meager 9,848 for their game against the Royals on Monday. Of course, this flies directly in the face of the recent trend of high attendance across the league, a trend that continued this week as only four…
Below the Box Score, Week of 8/14: Rays Sub-10K Again!
Once again the Rays have managed to draw fewer than 10,000 fans to a baseball game. This time it was against the defending AL Champion Cleveland Indians, who themselves last year had struggles with games drawing fewer than 10,000 fans early on. Not to be outdone by the American League, the Reds managed to play…
Below the Box Score, Week of 8/7: Royals Ejected More Than Entire NL!
The Royals have single-handedly vaulted themselves into a second place in the ejections race for the team title by getting rung thrice this week, giving them an overall ejection count of five, tied with the Dodgers, and still six behind the White Sox, who are running away with the title. The AL continued to outpace…
Below the Box Score, Week of 7/31: A New Season High for Ejections!
With 14 ejections last week, we had a season high for players and managers getting tossed. Astonishingly, 12 of those 14 happened to the home team, and three games featured multiple ejections, with the Rangers having two tossed, the Giants having two, and the Blue Jays winning on the season with two players and a…
Below the Box Score, Week of 7/24: We Dog Days Of Summer Now!
Triple digits in Kansas City this week was the highlight, the first 100 degree game outside of Phoenix this season. Especially impressive considering the game’s 7 PM start time. Neither starting pitcher made it past the fifth, with the game eventually going ten and the sweaty Royals fans going home sweaty but happy after 4:10…