CINCINNATI – It was an expensive ticket, but not many fans tuned into Tuesday night’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game on television.
Dire weather forecasts hanging over Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati helped drive down costs, but still left the Cincinnati game with among the highest-priced tickets for baseball’s midsummer game in recent years.
Austin, Texas-based TicketCity reports a final median sale price of $467, tumbling from $536 the previous weekend. The online service’s figures show that was higher than $449 for the game at New York’s Citi Field in 2013, and the $410 median price for last year’s game in Minnesota.
The New York-based online ticket marketplace SeatGeek reports that the average resale ticket price was $609, dropping from $669 just two days before the Tuesday night game. That final average was below SeatGeek’s average resale price of $643 for the 2013 game.
Storms passed through hours before the game, which drew 43,656 spectators.
However, the game drew a record-low television rating.
The AL’s 6-3 win over the NL earned a 6.6 rating and 12 share on Fox. The previous low was a 6.8 in 2012.
Fox said Wednesday that the broadcast averaged 10.9 million viewers. That’s down from the 11.3 million for last year’s game, Derek Jeter’s final All-Star appearance.
Baseball’s All-Star Game remains the highest-rated of the four major North American pro sports leagues. It was Fox’s best Tuesday prime-time rating since Game 6 of the World Series.
Ratings represent the percentage of homes with televisions tuned to a program, while shares measure the percentage of TVs in use at the time.