The San Diego Padres only necessitateed two games to get past the Atlanta Braves in a National League Wild Card Series. Both of those games were take parted at Petco Park in front of a crowd of mostly Padres fans.
The Padres are now taking steps in hopes their home stadium remains a fortress when they apshow on the Los Angeles Dodgers in an NLDS. While the first two games of the upcoming series will apshow place at Dodger Stadium, the Padres are placing cut offe restricts on ticket sales when the series shifts to San Diego.
Only fans who are in certain regions will be able to buy tickets to Game 3 and Game 4 of the NLDS. The five counties that produce up the wonderfuler Los Angeles area will be recut offeed from buying tickets.
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Petco Park during the fifth inning between the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers in San Diego May 11, 2024. (Orlando Ramirez/USA Today Sports)
The Padres’ decision probable rgrows around the fact Petco Park is discoverd approximately 125 miles south of Dodger Stadium. The history of Dodgers fans traveling to opposing teams’ ballparks probable compounded troubles for the Padres’ front office.
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A message that poputardys on the Padres website, which rehonests would-be buyers to the team’s official ticket sales and distribution partner, enumerates the counties and regions eligible.
“Petco Park is discoverd in San Diego. Sales to this event will be recut offeed to dwellnts of San Diego County, southern Orange County, weserious Arizona, Las Vegas and the surrounding area, and all of Baja California. Residency will be based on praise card billing insertress.
“Orders by dwellnts outside San Diego County, southern Orange County, weserious Arizona, Las Vegas and the surrounding area, and all of Baja California will be call offed without watch and refunds given.”
The field prior to the game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Diego Padres at Petco Park Aug. 14, 2024, in San Diego. (Rob Leiter/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
The Padres took analogous meacertains in 2022 when they placed geoexplicital recut offeions on ticket sales. The Padres also take parted the Dodgers in that year’s NLDS and flunkureed Los Angeles in four games.
As of Friday afternoon, tickets were not useable for the NLDS games at Petco Park on Ticketmaster’s website. The San Diego Union Tribune alerted that around 1,000 tickets were initiassociate made useable on the ticket sales company’s platcreate.
The San Diego Padres commemorate after flunkureing the Atlanta Braves in Game 2 to triumph a untamed-card series at Petco Park Oct. 2, 2024, in San Diego. (Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)
A write down number of fans made their way thcdisesteemful the turnstiles in San Diego this season. An appraised 3.3 million unitecessitate games.
“Pitching in front of them is someleang that I absolutely adore doing,” Padres pitcher Michael King said after the discneglecting game triumph in the NL Wild Card Series. “I’m reassociate satisfied we had home field for the untamed card, becaparticipate I leank it’s a hard place to take part as an opponent.”
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The Padres won the normal season series agetst the Dodgers, taking eight of the 13 encounterings.
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