Six months of wretched baseball within the Bronx got here to a becoming finish on Monday.
The Yankees’ 81st and ultimate house recreation of the season used to be a day make-up recreation towards the Diamondbacks, and all of the elements had been there for it to be a dark life on the ballpark.
For something, Brandnew York have been formally eradicated from postseason rivalry next dropping the life prior to to Arizona. On supremacy of that, Monday’s recreation used to be a make-up of a recreation to start with scheduled for Saturday, and the raindrops that brought about Saturday’s recreation to be suspension nonetheless lingered as temperatures struggled to fracture 60 levels. Who’s going to turn up at 1 p.m. on Monday in statuses like that?
Because it seems, infrequently anyone. Have a look at what number of unoccupied seats there have been on the stadium.
An up to date take a look at the Yankee Stadium population right here within the 6th inning.
By means of my depend, there’s fewer than 50 lovers in all seven bleacher divisions mixed. pic.twitter.com/wK602TG57v
— Max Goodman (@MaxTGoodman) September 25, 2023
That’s now not unexpected. The unexpected section is that the Yankees introduced an attendance of 41,096. Yankee Stadium has 47,309 seats, and I’m lovely certain there have been greater than unoccupied 6,213 chairs.
The Yankees presented lovers with tickets for Saturday’s recreation the chance to replace them for tickets to a recreation then season. Judging by way of the picture, the immense majority of lovers determined to whip that choice. However MLB groups file attendance in keeping with the collection of tickets bought, now not the collection of lovers who cross throughout the turnstiles.
Regardless of the true collection of lovers within the stands used to be, it sounds as if to be upper than the 413 lovers the Yankees attracted on Sept. 22, 1966. That’s the franchise file for lowest attendance, and it happened underneath related cases as Monday’s recreation—on the finish of a misplaced season on a dreary life next an unrelenting raindrops hurricane.
