ARLINGTON, Texas – Batting practice’s home run hit the side of the railing and slammed into the palm of his hand, the ball rising into the air before settling back into his grip while he grabbed the cellphone to his right. Hands.
Count the first of the 2020 season and the Texas resident and Los Angeles Dodgers fan to catch the bias memento – and among the first ticket buyers to watch live baseball in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Monday night.
Major League Baseball Ball Lay said it sells 11,500 tickets per game at the Globe Life Field for the series between the Glo Jerseys and the Atlanta Braves and plans to make equal allotments at the same bubblepark when it hosts the first Neutral-Site World Series starting October 20. .
McLeroy got a call from a friend knowing he was going to take a two-hour walk in the Dallas area for a long time knowing Jers fan. Declared attendance was 10,700, not including non-payers. Ticket prices range from $ 40 to $ 250 for the NLCS and from 75 75 to 4 50 for the World Series, which has already sold out. About 75% of fans “actively” followed the requirement to wear a mask without eating or drinking. Some did not bite their noses or mouths.
“We were wondering what the fan mix would be,” McLeroy said. “In this new age of everything we’re going through, we were just excited. When we got inside, we saw a lot of Derger Blue there.”
There were also plenty of Brave logos, and the Tomahawk chop mantra could be heard when Ronald Akuna Jr. and Walker Buhler set foot as Atlanta’s leadoff hitters.
It’s the first MLB game of its kind with fans since March 12, when five grapefruit league games were completed in Florida as the novel Coronavirus stopped spring training there and in Arizona. Government of Texas. Greg Abbott said in June that the commercial and college ledge stadiums would be allowed to operate at 50% capacity, and the MLB decided to sell tickets starting from the NLCS after the regular season with attendance falling from 68.5 million to 0.
The NFL’s Dallas Cowboys have sold about 31% of their capacity at the nearby AT&T Stadium for Sunday’s win over the New York Giants. No tickets are being sold for the American League Championship Series between Houston and Tampa Bay at San Diego’s Petco Park.
Fans of earlier times have played the game of Major League Baseball, which, it is said, was also in Texas: Houston sold the 2019 World Series game 7,43,326, while Washington and Washington beat the Astros. This time the seats were sold in four groups at the new 40,518-seat retractable-roofed stadium, with empty seats between ticketed sections secured by zip ties to prevent people from sitting.
“It was an innovative thing because of the new territory and it never got fans,” said Jack Wood, a fan of the Brackens, who drove about four hours from Little Rock, Arkansas. “And with this whole covid thing, I kind of think about it. I thought it was exciting.”
In March, Claudia Megalenez, her husband and two sons traveled nine hours from Carlsbad, New Mexico, to catch spring training games in Arizona. They never saw anyone because of the closure. When they realized that fans would be allowed for the NLCS, they remembered their decision to go to the World Series games in Los Angeles a few years ago. It was an easy time to watch their first LA postseason game, though Claudia left for the airport on Tuesday morning for a scheduled fun trip to Nevada.
“On Friday morning, he gives me the news, and I am, ‘Yes, yes.’ “So these four tickets were given with money back from the canceled spring training games,” Claudia said. “I told him two years ago that I’m still sorry we didn’t buy a ticket.”
Justin Ferris of Plano’s Dallas suburb wore a Rangers jersey with his two sons and wore his Texas Rangers cap. It was clear why they weren’t seen during the new Bullpark fans were considered during their opening season.
“He wanted to see it before anyone did,” said Ferris, who said he would beat Dodgers because of Clayton Kershav, a native of Dallas. “And he’s going to be a cleaner. He’s the most successful today.”
Ally Dills has a season ticket for Brave and stays a few hours north of Atlanta. She says she hasn’t missed any home playoff games in the last two years, so she had to talk to her boss about giving her a day off. After Game 1 – and to work – Deals returned home, but the 21-year-old Walmart manager was already thinking about the World Series.
“I’m going down here, no doubt about it.” Dills said. “I’ll say to my boss, ‘Hey, man, you can come with me.'”
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