{"id":227150,"date":"2025-08-05T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/227150\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:29:10","slug":"san-diego-padres-attendance-poised-to-exceed-3-million-for-third-straight-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/227150\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres\u2019 attendance poised to exceed 3 million for third straight season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Padres will \u201cblow past 3 million in home attendance next month,\u201d making it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessdaily.com\/Articles\/2024\/09\/23\/san-diego-padres-attendance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/09\/23\/san-diego-padres-attendance\/\">three years in a row<\/a> they have \u201ccracked baseball\u2019s golden marker at the gate,\u201d according to Tom Krasovic of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE. The capacity turnout on Sunday \u201cmoved the Padres ahead\u201d of the Yankees for \u201csecond in home attendance this season,\u201d behind only the Dodgers. It was \u201cjust another day of baseball Mardi Gras\u201d in San Diego. The\u202fcrowds \u201calways exceed 33,000,\u201d the beverages \u201calways flow like at a German beer garden.\u201d Krasovic: \u201cThe pro-Padres vibe in this transient region has soared in recent years.\u201d He noted the inflection points are Chargers owner Dean Spanos taking the NFL franchise out of town in 2017 and the Padres \u201cknocking off the Dodgers\u201d five years later in the NLDS en route to their first NLCS since 1998. Even if the Padres were \u201cfielding bad teams in this post-Chargers era,\u201d the home attendance would not \u201cplummet to levels anywhere near those now in Miami, Pittsburgh or the Southside of Chicago.\u201d Krasovic: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsbusinessdaily.com\/Articles\/2025\/03\/27\/padres-on-field-success-to-dictate-franchise-direction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/03\/27\/padres-on-field-success-to-dictate-franchise-direction\/\">Good-time vibes<\/a> count for a lot.\u201d The Padres being good at baseball \u201cprovides the club more than a perk, though.\u201d Playoff contention has \u201cpushed attendance above several big-market clubs in every season since 2021.\u201d And when the 2022 and 2024 squads reached the postseason, \u201ccapacity crowds paid for the more expensive tickets\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/08\/04\/tom-krasovic-its-baseball-mardi-gras-at-petco-park-with-a-fun-team-to-match\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/08\/04\/tom-krasovic-its-baseball-mardi-gras-at-petco-park-with-a-fun-team-to-match\/ \">SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 8\/4<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres will \u201cblow past 3 million in home attendance next month,\u201d making it three years in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,4339,4338,19734],"class_list":{"0":"post-227150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-sandiegopadres","15":"tag-ticketing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114976873940337846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}