The Ticket Prices For the World Series are Insanely High
Everywhere you go, people are critical of the World Series matchup between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Texas Rangers.
You'll hear various different complaints about the playoff format that allowed the D'Backs to get in despite only having 84 wins. You'll hear that the television executives can't be happy with the matchup, and you'll hear that there aren't enough superstars playing.
But the story on the ground is a much different one. There certainly seems to be an appetite for this World Series among fans of the two teams, and in the two cities.
Per Front Office Sports, the average price of a ticket to a game in Arlington is $1,946 dollars. The average price of a ticket to a game in Arizona is $1,453 dollars.
It's the Rangers' first World Series appearance since 2011 and it's the first for Arizona since 2001. The D'Backs won that appearance in 2001 while the Rangers have never won the World Series.
It should be an excellent series between a Rangers team that continuously mashes offensively and a D'Backs team that is incredibly hot, having swept both the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers in these playoffs, before beating the Phillies in the NLCS.
Game 1 of the series is set for Friday night from Arlington. First pitch will get going at 8:03 p.m. ET as Nathan Eovaldi (TEX) pitches against Zac Gallen (ARI).
Eovaldi is 4-0 this postseason with a 2.42 ERA while Gallen is 2-2 with a 5.24. Eovaldi helped the Boston Red Sox win the World Series in 2018 and is known as a big-game pitcher.
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