Red Sox set U.S. sports record for sellouts (2024)

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BOSTON -- The sellout streak at Fenway Park, which began on May 15, 2003, and lasted 794 regular season games (820 if you include the postseason) came to an end with 30,862 turning up to watch the Red Sox's 8-5 loss to the Orioles on a rainy Wednesday night.

For 820 consecutive games, the announced attendance was followed by the words "sellout." Wednesday night, anticipating the inevitable, the Red Sox issued a news release announcing their record streak of sellouts -- 820 (794 regular-season games and an additional 26 in the postseason) -- was ending.

BOSTON -- The Red Sox set a record for the longest regular-season sellout streak in major U.S. sports with the 745th consecutive sellout of Fenway Park on Sunday, a 4-3 loss to the Nationals. The NBA's Portland Trail Blazers recorded 744 sellouts from 1977-95.

Here are the three longest sellout streaks in baseball history: Red Sox: 794 games from 2003-13. Giants: 530 games from 2010-17. Indians: 455 games from 1995-2001.

With a capacity of 38,805 spectators, Fenway is one of Major League Baseball's smallest parks. And the Sox have sold out every game since May 15, 2003. What to do? BU Today offers personality profiles of six buyers, all with strategies that just may get you inside Fenway Park.

The sellout streak ended on April 10, 2013 (with an attendance of 30,862) after the Red Sox sold out 794 regular season games and an additional 26 postseason games.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have the highest attendance in baseball with more than 45,000 fans per game. Dodger Stadium is the second-biggest MLB stadium by capacity (56,000), only behind the Oakland Athletics' Oakland Coliseum (56,782).

Most popular MLB team in the U.S. 2023

A March 2023 survey in the United States revealed the New York Yankees to be the most popular Major League Baseball franchise. Around 60 percent of respondents had a favorable opinion of the Yankees. By comparison, the favorability of the Washington Nationals was at 43 percent.

The Los Angeles Dodgers ranked highest in this list with a total season home attendance of 3.84 million people. Conversely, the team with the lowest total season home attendance was the Oakland Athletics, who registered an attendance of around 832 thousand fans in 2023.

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Most attended game in history

115,301 is the all-time record. It was a preseason game between the defending champions Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday March 29, 2008 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The capacity for night games at Fenway Park is 37,493. The streak began in May 2003 and includes the postseason. The string broke the record of 814 set by the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers from 1977 to 1995. Boston's streak of 794 regular-season sellouts also is the longest in major pro sports history.

The Boston Bruins have the longest active sellout streak at 549 games, as of this date.

All the record books tell us the longest winning streak in baseball history is 26 games, by John McGraw's 1916 Giants. There was just one problem with that streak: Those Giants needed 27 games to win 26 in a row. That's because they won 12 in a row, then tied one, then won another 14 in a row.

The paid attendance was announced as 47,627. This number constitutes the largest crowd ever to enter Fenway Park or an American League game in Boston.

37,755

Fenway Park / Capacity

On August 21, 2022, Bill made history as the first comedian to perform at Fenway Park, selling out the 35,000-seat venue.

For the record, confirmed with the Bruins, Boston has sold out 540 consecutive games.