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Originally Posted by WestCoastGuy
For what it's worth, during that era in real life, I think there were often pennant-clinchers that were played in front of non-sellout crowds.
Although, that said, when the Mets clinched the NL East in real life a year later, they did so in front of a sellout or near-sellout crowd.
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You know, I think it depends on whether the pennant is a foregone conclusion. If a team has a 12-game lead and is clinching in the first week of September, then maybe it wont sell out on a Monday night.
But the final weekend of the season when the team has already started selling World Series tickets, and against a 2nd-place team that can still win the pennant if they sweep?
The last game of the previous homestand had 29K attendance, so I suspect that "pennant clinching" events are not part of the current attendance model.
For example, this team drew 49K in Game 7 of this season's World Series