While the Milwaukee Brewers continue to keep their playoff hopes alive, the team keeps winning at the gate.
Attendance, after 70 home games, stands at eighth in Major League Baseball. The Brewers have drawn 2,498,346 fans to Miller Park, averaging 35,690 fans per game. Should that average continue through the final 11 home games, the club would finish the year at 2,890,936 -- just over 109,000 shy of the three million mark.
That's better than their 2018 total, when 2,850,875 showed up (good for 10th in the MLB).
Let's put this season in perspective. The Tampa Bay Rays are currently locked into a wild card spot with an 82-59 record (trailing the front-running New York Yankees in the American League East by 9 1/2 games). The only team worse than Tampa? Those mighty Miami Marlins, averaging UNDER 10,000 a contest. Anyone out there want to question the logic of professional baseball in Florida?
Despite a winning record, the Rays are second-to last in MLB, averaging under 15,000 fans a game. On Tuesday, for example, they attracted just 6,844 bodies. Milwaukee, in comparison, had a crowd of 29,335.
You can bet that the next four games with the Chicago Cubs will bring attract 39,000+ each game. And the Brew Crew will need to win at least three of those to stay relevant and in the chase.
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