WooSox among few teams not yet selling single-game tickets
Photo | Grant Welker
Polar Park's playing field from behind home plate
The Worcester Red Sox are the only one in their 20-team minor league to have a new stadium to show off this season. Unfortunately for them, they're also one of very few not yet selling single-game tickets or announcing the start of such sales.
Capacity limits set by Massachusetts are limiting the WooSox to 12% capacity at Polar Park. If that limit holds through Opening Day, only 1,140 fans will be able to attend, fewer than the 2,158 season tickets the team has said it's sold for its first year in Worcester.
Among New England's three other minor league teams, the Portland Sea Dogs and the New Hampshire Fisher Cats have already begun selling tickets for games through May, and the Hartford Yard Goats will start selling single-game tickets Monday.
[Related: Polar Park wrapping up construction as first WooSox game nears]
In the 20-team Triple-A East league of which the WooSox belong, only two others haven't put single-game tickets for sale or announced sales starting in the coming days. One is the Norfolk Tides in Virginia, and the other the Buffalo Bisons, which are an exception. They aren't sure if they'll be able to play home games at all this year because their parent club, the Toronto Blue Jays will be using their stadium instead. The Bisons instead are scheduling games in New Jersey.
A dozen of Triple-A East's teams have already begun selling single-game tickets, and another five have dates publicly announced in the coming days for when those tickets will become available. Some have begun selling for May home games only, out of hopes that capacity limits related to the coronavirus pandemic may change as the season progresses. In the counterpart 10-team Triple-A West, half the teams have begun selling single-game tickets or will do so in the coming few days.
Larry Lucchino, the team's chairman and principal owner, said during a media tour of Polar Park on Tuesday the team hopes to begin selling single-game tickets in the next few weeks. Opening day is scheduled for May 11.
Even the team's Twitter account alludes to the delay putting tickets up for sale. "Patiently waiting for single game tickets to go on sale," its profile's biographical line says.
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