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MLB August Attendance Surges to Heights Not Seen in a Decade

Fans across the country are buying into MLB with playoff races heating up, as league-wide attendance reached its highest point over an August weekend since 2015.
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San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants left fielder Heliot Ramos (17) is congratulated by third baseman Matt Chapman (26) after scoring a run against the Washington Nationals in the eighth inning at Oracle Park.
San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants left fielder Heliot Ramos (17) is congratulated by third baseman Matt Chapman (26) after scoring a run against the Washington Nationals in the eighth inning at Oracle Park. | Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images

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With summer still in full swing, baseball has continued to assert its dominance in the sports landscape.

According to MLB Communications, a total of 1,589,481 fans attendance big league ballparks this past weekend. That gave it the largest total attendance for an August weekend since 2015.

It isn't a fluke to see these numbers, considering the league set recent and modern records throughout May and June.

MLB broke the all-time attendance record for a pre-June Wednesday on May 14, just before the inaugural rivalry weekend caused a spike not seen in 13 years. The league-wide attendance on April 18 was the highest for a Friday in April with no home openers since 2008, while the average attendance in April as a whole reached its highest mark since 2017.

The 1,677,850 fans who filled the stands over Father's Day weekend in June stand above the mark posted in mid-August, even with the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Playoffs no longer pulling away eyeballs.

The NFL is in the midst of its preseason, giving MLB another few weeks as the biggest game in town. From there, Wild Card races and the playoffs will carry attention through the fall.

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Sam Connon is a staff writer covering baseball for “Fastball on SI.’’ He previously covered UCLA Athletics for On SI’s All Bruins site, and is a UCLA graduate, with his work there as a sports columnist receiving awards from the College Media Association and Society of Professional Journalists. Connon also wrote for On SI’s New England Patriots site, Patriots Country, and he was on the Patriots and Boston Red Sox beats at Prime Time Sports Talk. Sam lives in Boston.

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