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Andrew Joseph

MLB fans roasted the Yankees for announcing an attendance of 41,096 in a near-empty stadium

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Despite having baseball’s second-highest payroll in 2023, the Yankees will be heading into the offseason when October comes around. And they didn’t exactly have a rousing sendoff for their home finale at Yankee Stadium.

Even if the listed attendance said otherwise.

Severe weather in New York forced the team to move Saturday’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks to Monday afternoon. Now, that Saturday game was initially supposed to have a great crowd with it being Aaron Judge bobblehead night. But when the team was forced to move the game to Monday, very few Yankees fans decided to make the trip to the Bronx for the matinee game.

Yet, the Yankees apparently arrive at attendance figures based on tickets sold and not actual people in the stands. That led to a wild announced attendance of 41,096 when the real crowd couldn’t have exceeded 4,000 people.

On the bright side for the fans who actually went to the game, they saw an impressive comeback win and had the opportunity to catch SO MANY foul balls.

Fans still thought that announced attendance was hilarious because, well, look at that crowd!

This was how Twitter reacted

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