Today’s Lineups
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YANKEES |
DIAMONDBACKS |
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Ben Rice – DH |
Lars Nootbaar – LF |
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Cody Bellinger – LF |
Ketel Marte – 2B |
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Luis Garcia – 1B |
Gabriel Moreno – C |
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Heliot Ramos – RF |
Geraldo Perdomo – SS |
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George Lombard – SS |
Corbin Carroll – RF |
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Austin Wells – C |
Nolan Arenado – 3B |
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Anthony Volpe – 2B |
Tim Tawa – 1B |
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Ryan McMahon – 3B |
Jesus Sanchez – DH |
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Jose Caballero – CF |
Jordan Lawlar – CF |
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Cam Schlittler – RHP |
Brandon Pfaadt – RHP |
41,910 at the ballpark last night. That’s actually only the sixth-largest home crowd of the year for the D-backs. #1 is, obviously enough, the home opener against the Tigers. But all three of the August series against the Dodgers drew a bigger crowd, and it wasn’t particularly close: an average of 45,387 per game. Initially, it seemed that the weird one to surpass the Yankees was a Thursday evening game against the Dodgers in June. which saw a crowd just one shy of forty-two thousand at Chase. That’s 5,700 more than the previous night. But a little digging showed that was Hispanic Heritage Night, with a jersey give-away that evening. Mystery solved.
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This topic actually cropped up a bit in last night’s Gameday Thread, as we brainstormed ideas of getting better crowds at Chase. Note: better is not necessarily the same as bigger. As the games here and against the Dodgers have showed, we need to decide if we’d rather have a full ballpark – even if a lot of the fans might not be wearing the home team’s colors. It’s a legitimate question. Should we appeal more to the local Hispanic population? I seem to recall some efforts in that direction, and as that June crowd shows, they will show up if given reason to do so. But I have to say, my tolerance for Norteño is low. As is that of the Hispanic Mrs. SnakePit!
With two games left, it looks like attendance is going to be roughly the same as the last couple of years. If we presume another 85-90K tonight and tomorrow, that’ll make the total just under 2.30 million. That compares to 2.39 million last year and 2.34 in 2024. Probably about 1,200 per game, which is something of a recovery, considering the early numbers had them down easily the biggest amount in the major, a drop of more than 5,400 per game in the second half of May. The gap would have been closer still, if not for the games in Mexico City costing the team due to the small capacity of the ballpark there. Looks like Derrick Hall was right not to be particularly concerned.
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