The Seattle Mariners currently sit tied for the second AL Wild Card playoff spot with the Detroit Tigers/Kansas City Royals. The difference between the Mariners and Tigers? Safeco Field only drew 11,345 fans for Tuesday night’s matchup against the Astros. While the Astros may not be a very “cool” team to watch, the game have extreme importance for Seattle who needs to win while the Tigers and Royals fight each other off across the country.
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The attendance in Detroit tonight? 32,603 fans ready to will their team to the playoffs. Maybe the playoff fever isn’t contagious yet for Seattle, tweets MLB reporter Greg Johns.
Some other numbers tonight show that the Baltimore Orioles at Boston Red Sox held the highest attendance above the Detroit game with 37,008 in attendance. The Texas Rangers are the worst team in baseball and they still brought out 26,054 Tuesday night against the Angels.
Safeco Field, however, did not have the lowest attendance. That goes to the Cleveland Indians who had just 9,489 fans come out to the game despite being just five games out of the AL Central lead. But, they don’t stand much chance the way the Tigers and Royals are playing.
Regardless, Seattle Mariners fans should be embarrassed that their 47,476 capacity stadium is not even half filled with less than a month to go in the regular season. Seattle hasn’t made the playoffs since 2001, you would think fans would want to be apart of something like a Wild Card playoff push.