Prior to last nights game against the Bronx Bombers the Twins ranked sixth in the AL in total attendance, having drawn 1,296,842 this season, trailing New York (2,174,093), Los Angeles (1,868,163), Boston (1,766,667), Houston (1,730,832) and Texas (1,409,726). Rocco’s boys now have drawn 30,000+ in 15 of their last 19 home games. The Twins have sold out 168 regular season games at Target Field since 2010, they sold out 81 in 2010, 57 in 2011, eight in 2012, six in 2013, none in 2014, six in 2015, one in 2016, one in 2017, one in 2018, and seven in 2019. Twins fans are showing they will come to watch a good team play ball. In spite of the teams low attendance numbers to start the season, they are now averaging 26,629 per game which is over 3,000 on average per game more than last season. At this pace they are on track to hit 2.2 million fans.
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