DENVER (KDVR) — Regardless of the Colorado Rockies breaking the franchise file for the most losses in a season and having the lowest-attended common season recreation in 10 years, the workforce’s general turnout this yr could have been larger than you assume.
Attendance at Coors Subject by no means wavers. Perhaps it is because Coors Subject is ranked as having a few of the greatest stadium meals within the nation or due to a budget ticket costs. Nevertheless, the workforce’s lowest-attended video games are nonetheless larger than different MLB groups’ averages for the whole season.
Primarily based on ESPN’s MLB attendance information, the Rockies had been ranked 14th out of 30 groups for common attendance in 2023.
Whereas that is larger than half the MLB groups, the Rockies often hit within the prime 10 for common attendance information. That is their lowest rating since 2015 after they had been additionally ranked 14th within the league.
The attendance for the whole MLB elevated by 9.1% this yr in comparison with final yr, in keeping with the MLB. It’s not that there are fewer followers at Coors Subject, however there are extra followers at different MLB video games.
Regardless of this decrease rating, Rockies attendance was really up general in comparison with earlier years at Coors Subject, simply not as a lot because the league general.
The Rockies really reached the very best common fan turnout in 2023 because the pandemic began in 2020.
This season, the Rockies hit 2,607,935 complete followers with a mean of 32,196 folks per recreation. In the meantime, the Rockies’ 2019 season ranked sixth within the league and tallied 2,993,244 folks with a mean of 36,953 folks per recreation.
The workforce’s attendance file nonetheless has an extended technique to go to succeed in pre-pandemic ranges and knock out different MLB groups.
Even with the Rockies’ worst season ever, you’ll nonetheless discover die-hard followers and a mob of purple exterior the stadium on recreation days.
