A number of factors could be behind the lag in sales this year. First, the Home Opener is March 26, barely a week after St. Patrick’s Day (aka Super Tuesday). That’s incredibly early for fans to watch a game of baseball. And, as it’s Cleveland, the forecast for the game could be anywhere from 20 to 60 degrees. Also, the Tribe’s inability to reach the playoffs last year may mean that some fair-weather fans aren’t as inclined to shell out money to watch the team play in the inevitable cold.
Yet as the day is essentially a city-wide holiday, the Home Opener will probably, eventually, sell out. So come March 26, expect Progressive Field to be packed to the gills with drunk, hopeful fans watching the Tribe take on the Detroit Tigers at 1:10 p.m.
Tickets are currently running between $57 and $225.
For those interested in attending any of the warmer home games offered later in the 2020 season, there are still plenty of tickets available and you can find them all right here.
Check out everything we saw at last year’s Home Opener right here.
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This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 3, 2020.
I’m sorry, but I’m not going to sit outside at a baseball game on March 26. And I say this as a baseball fan. WAY too cold for that.
Games aare way toooooooooooo long and boring. Plus, the Indians are just not that good.
MLB need to move the season back to May – nobody wants to watch baseball which is a warm weather sport When its 35 degrees and snowing
The season is too damn long anyway
I’d rather go to game 2 after the fair-weather partiers have gone back to school.
I feel like I can’t get into baseball this year until the MLB commissioner punishes the Astros players for cheating. Pete Rose was banned for life for a much less egregious offense.