World Series Game 1 ticket inventory drops and prices remain high
Ticket inventory on the secondary market has shrunk significantly for Tuesday night's (8 p.m. ET) Game 1 of the World Series between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs at Progressive Field.
Ticket supply has dipped by two-thirds to about 1,000 seats over the last 24 hours, and the average sale price remains north of $1,000, according to ticket sales and tracking site TicketIQ. The average asking price has fallen about 15% during that same period to about $1,800, although TicketIQ CEO Jesse Lawrence told Paste BN it may not drop significantly more as is typically the case when game time approaches.
“The get-in price, the lowest price ticket for the game, has jumped from $780 to nearly $1,000 over the last 24 hours,” Lawrence said. “There’s not much supply for the cheapest seats or standing-room-only tickets. I think there are a lot of Cubs fans in their cars looking for tickets as they drive to Cleveland.”
Game 2 remains the bargain of the series as the minimum asking price was about $750 as of Tuesday with approximately 1,800 tickets left on the secondary market.
The cheapest ticket for Friday’s Game 3 — the first World Series game at Wrigley Field since 1945 — dipped below $2,000 on Tuesday morning. That’s for a standing-room-only ticket; if you want to sit, it still costs more than $2,500.
The average sale price on StubHub for Game 3 was $3,623 as of late Tuesday morning. Game 1 of the 2004 World Series ($1,825) when the Boston Red Sox hosted the St. Louis Cardinals holds the record as StubHub's highest sale price for a baseball game since it began tracking sales in 2002.
There are still more than 2,000 tickets left for Game 3 after about a 10% drop in inventory over the last 24 hours, according to TicketIQ. Game 4 currently has the highest price on StubHub for tickets actually sold for the series: $4,226.