Although Major League Baseball did see improvements in attendance in 2022, fans still have not returned to levels that were seen before the COVID-19 pandemic.
pursuit or Albert Pujols' homer heroics weren't a big enough attraction for fans to swarm to ballparks and return attendance numbers to pre-pandemic levels.
But leaguewide attendance significantly spiked in 2022 compared to the COVID-19-affected 2021 season.drew around 64.6 million fans to ballparks throughout the regular season. In 2021, 45.3 million fans flocked to baseball stadiums across the nation, according to data from Baseball-Reference. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 68.5 million attended games in 2019. On average, big league baseball games drew 26,843 in 2022, a 5.3% decrease from the 2019 average.
Two Washington Nationals fans watch a game against the Atlanta Braves surrounded by empty seats during the ninth inning at Nationals Park Sept. 27, 2022, in Washington, D.C.led the way with a total of 3.86 millions fans and an average of 47,672 per game. By contrast, the 102-loss Oakland Athletics drew only 787,902 fans and saw less than 10,000 on average per game.
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