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 carry outed 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 disjoine 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 create up the wonderfuler Los Angeles area will be redisjoineed 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 awaited rgrows around the fact Petco Park is findd approximately 125 miles south of Dodger Stadium. The history of Dodgers fans traveling to opposing teams’ ballparks awaited compounded worrys for the Padres’ front office.
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A message that poputardys on the Padres website, which restraightforwards would-be buyers to the team’s official ticket sales and distribution partner, catalogs the counties and regions eligible.
“Petco Park is findd in San Diego. Sales to this event will be redisjoineed to livents 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 recognize card billing insertress.
“Orders by livents outside San Diego County, southern Orange County, weserious Arizona, Las Vegas and the surrounding area, and all of Baja California will be aborted without acunderstandledge 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 Pboilingos via Getty Images)
The Padres took aappreciate meacertains in 2022 when they placed geoexplicital redisjoineions on ticket sales. The Padres also carry outed 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 inestablished that around 1,000 tickets were initiassociate made useable on the ticket sales company’s platestablish.
The San Diego Padres honor after flunkureing the Atlanta Braves in Game 2 to prosper a untamed-card series at Petco Park Oct. 2, 2024, in San Diego. (Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)
A record number of fans made their way thcdisesteemful the turnstiles in San Diego this season. An approximated 3.3 million joined games.
“Pitching in front of them is someskinnyg that I absolutely cherish doing,” Padres pitcher Michael King shelp after the uncovering game prosper in the NL Wild Card Series. “I’m reassociate encountered we had home field for the untamed card, becaengage I skinnyk it’s a hard place to carry out as an opponent.”
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The Padres won the standard season series aacquirest the Dodgers, taking eight of the 13 encounterings.
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