{"id":79096,"date":"2025-06-04T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/79096\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:39:09","slug":"colorado-rockies-draw-crowds-despite-historic-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/79096\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Rockies draw crowds despite historic struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Rockies are \u201cteetering on infamy\u201d as they enter play today with a 11-50 record, but fans are \u201cstill showing up\u201d at Coors Field, according to Kyle Fredrickson of the Denver GAZETTE. The team ranks 16th in attendance, averaging 27,621 fans over the first 27 home games. The Rockies \u201cstruggled in April\u201d with six crowds under 20,000, though things improved in May due to \u201cmostly improved weather and quality opponents\u201d like the Yankees and Padres. The fan uptick \u201ccoincides with the worst start in modern MLB history,\u201d yet the \u201callure of Coors Field remains strong\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/denvergazette.com\/sports\/rockies-home-attendance-coors-field-insider\/article_21bb7171-da7b-43bb-be4a-439afa415c9c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/denvergazette.com\/sports\/rockies-home-attendance-coors-field-insider\/article_21bb7171-da7b-43bb-be4a-439afa415c9c.html\">Denver GAZETTE, 6\/3<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies are \u201cteetering on infamy\u201d as they enter play today with a 11-50 record, but fans are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,168,19734],"class_list":{"0":"post-79096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-rockies","14":"tag-ticketing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114626085968191314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79096","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=79096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}