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Two days before the season’s first pitch, scores of tickets remain available for Opening Day at Citi Field.
Ticket sales have declined each year since Citi Field opened in 2009, but Opening Day was usually a no doubt sell out, with each season’s opener drawing more than 41,000 fans.
Perennial cellar dwellers, Pittsburgh and Kansas City, have already sold out their home opener.
Many factors were working in the Mets favor for an Opening Day sell out: nice weather, a ceremony honoring a Mets legend, the return of their ace and facing a bitter rival. But it seems hope has not sprung eternal for fans.
Fans can still purchase tickets for the Thursday, April 5 match-up with the Atlanta Braves in popular ballpark locales such as the Big Apple Reserved, and up to 12 tickets are still available together in the upper deck’s Promenade Reserved. Four tickets are still available together in sections ranging from $40-215.
The season’s first game will feature a pre-game ceremony honoring the life and career of Gary Carter who passed away in February after a 10-month battle with brain cancer. The contest will also mark the return to the mound for Johan Santana. The Mets’ ace missed all of last season following shoulder surgery.
The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and a high of 56.
The last time the Mets did not sell out a home opener was in 1997 when the game took place a day late following a rain out.
To purchase tickets fans can visit www.mets.com/tickets
Tried the Mets. Never again. Saw the article saying the game was sold out. Bought tickets – spent a fortune. Left for the game with 2 hrs and 30 minutes to spare. Once at Shea – ALL parking lots were said to be full. Let after hearing the 4th inning on the radio. Emailed the Mets – no response. Inexcusable when there are 30,000 at the game. My kids were crushed.
That’s what they get when opening day is: Holy Thursday, the day before Spring Break from school, and the day before the first Passover seder night. Too much going on & too many people going on vacation or to church or to family or, like me, cleaning/cooking/cleaning/cooking….I’ll have to wait to see the Amazin’s later in the season!
I hope this season isn’t a disaster!