24/7 Wall St. - Major League Baseball Rivalries Cause Ticket Price Surge

Last night we published an article on 24/7 Wall St. breaking down Major League Baseball's biggest rivalries and ticket prices for those games in both venues. Here's some of the article:

With a long baseball season featuring 81 regular season home games for each team, nothing helps get fans to the ballpark like a good rivalry game. Whether it’s an old division foe or a city rivalry, these games always seem to attract the most passionate home crowds. This season that certainly looks to be the case with many of the top rivalries in the league seeing a premium price above the regular season average.

Below are the secondary market averages, according to TicketIQ, ranked by premium, along with the amount of remaining regular season games for six of the biggest rivalries in MLB.

1. Red Sox Avg. Price: $146.27 vs. New York Yankees: $295.23 | Premium: 101.83% (6 games remaining)

The Red Sox and Yankees might have the most storied rivalry in sports, and the teams have six games left at Fenway Park. Red Sox tickets have a huge premium for Yankees games. Red Sox tickets average $146.27, but jump to $295.23 for the six games the Yankees are on the Red Sox schedule. That’s a premium of 102%, which is the largest premium on this list.

To read the rest of the article and see the full top ten list of MLB rivalry prices, click here.