Detroit — While a select few baseball teams are prepping for the playoffs, the Detroit Tigers are finishing their worst season — and have recorded their lowest home attendance — since 2003.
Just over 1.5 million paid tickets were sold at Comerica Park in 2019, a 51% drop since the team's record of nearly 3.1 million fans in 2013, the middle of a four-year playoff run.
And far fewer fans have shown up than were reported as paid attendance.
The Tigers on-field struggles have had an impact in and even outside Comerica, where scalpers, vendors and concessionaires have suffered from a lack of turnstile traffic that the team is already trying to turn around for 2020.