12,451. That’s the number of fans that came to Camden Yards on Wednesday night to watch the Orioles take on the Tigers. After 46,593 packed the house on Monday afternoon to watch the Birds beat the Tigers 5-1 and advance to 4-0, only 25.8% of Oriole Park seats were occupied.
I didn’t see the attendance until after the game, but upon seeing Brad Bergesen warm up before the game begun I tweeted that I was incredibly disappointed in Baltimore fans for not showing up to watch this team as they went for their fifth straight win.
What happened to the excitement I saw on Monday afternoon? Where were the fans wearing the “Buck’s Birds” shirts or the guys heckling the Tigers’ bullpen on Opening Day?
Maybe I bought into thinking that Baltimore had finally gotten excited about baseball. I got a bit ahead of myself in thinking that we could finally take our beautiful ballpark back from Red Sox nation and obnoxious Yankee fans.
13 years, son. 13 years.
There’s a core of Oriole baseball fans that will go regardless, but you gotta rope in those bandwagon fans to get the gates up. By comparison, it really wasn’t too bad. Cincy, who is a fairly serious contender in the NL, only drew about the same number for their recent weeknight game. I think a better indicator will be the weekend series coming up.
April. Wed. evening. School not out. somewhat chilly. 13 years of losing. And, still it was about average for what the league sees at this time of year. Temper your disgust.
I thought I read that last nights attendance was a 20% increase over similar games last year. I thought I remember them only drawing around 9,000 for the 2nd home game last year.
Not a great improvement, but it is not going to happen over night.
I’ll say it once again.
It’s gonna take a whole lot more than Buck and a 4 game win streak to get fans back to the Yard.
This weekend when the Rangers come to town, it’ll be a different story
@JoeinCleveland – I hope you’re right Joe. That will be the true test.