When the Cubs originally set the face-value ticket prices for tonight’s game at Wrigley Field against the Brewers, little could they have imagined what would be on the line.
Many upper-deck seats went for less than $15. Now the secondary market has many of those tickets on sale for more than $100.
With a win tonight, the Cubs will clinch the National League Central title.
“Demand is very high,” Steve Buzil of Sitclose ticket brokers said Thursday. Tickets on that site for tonight’s game start at $103 for upper-deck seats and top off at $635 for box seats.
On StubHub, standing-room-only tickets start at $51. The asking price for a box seat near the dugout is $999.
Buzil said many of his customers are weighing the cost of going to tonight’s game or saving their money to be able to buy playoff tickets, when prices are expected to soar.
He also said once the Cubs clinch, it will be a “buyer’s market” for the rest of the regular-season games. The exception could be the Cardinals series next weekend, when St. Louis fans are likely to drive up demand as the wild-card race nears a conclusion.
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