Watching SF and LAD last night. The announcer mentioned that last night was the Giant’s 336 consecutive game with a full stadium. Is that a biggie? A record?
And who is that announcer? He does a one man show, seems to be a Giant fan. Gives a lot of in depth information on players.
The Red Sox have the offical record at something like over 800 games… but that is padded like a middle school girl’s bra because they counted tickets that were simply given away regardless of how empty the park was on game day.
Is Jon Miller still doing the Giant games? If it’s the Dodgers broadcast, it’s Vin Scully.
If I recall correctly, the definition of “sell out” has changed in the last few years, as well. Stadiums are allowed to provide their own definitions of what percentage of tickets sold constitutes a sell out, so while it’s still an impressive streak, it isn’t quite what it sounds like.
And as FuriousGeorge noted, it was either Jon Miller (who is definitely still broadcasting) or Vin Scully, both of whom are fantastic. Vin Scully (the Dodger announcer) has been doing Dodger broadcasts for 65 years (that’s not a typo) and is known for his story-telling about the players.
The Giants’ streak is no better than 3rd best. The Indians had 455 consecutive sellouts from June 12, 1995, to April 4, 2001. Theirs was the record the Red Sox broke. The former might be a bit more impressive as Jacob’s Field (what it was then called) seats 43,345 while Fenway Park seats 37,673, and the Cleveland metro area is less than half the size of the Boston metro area at 2 and 4.5 million.
The Giants do have the NL record.
The Dayton (OH) Dragons in class A ball, who are affiliated with the Reds, have sold out every home game since they arrived there in 2000. They had 1051 consecutive sellouts as of the end of last season. The park seats 8200. So they’ve sold 8,618,200 consecutive tickets
Considering how hard it was to get a ticket to a Giants game in their first few seasons after they left Whatever Candlestick Park Is Called This Week, 336 doesn’t seem too high.
If anything, I would say, “Is that all?”; the game before the start of the 336-game streak would have been, if I counted correctly, the 13th home game of the 2011 season, but why would the Giants not sell out early in the season following its first World Series title since moving from New York?
It was always Candlestick. Nobody paid *me *to call it anything else.
This article is from 2011, but discusses some of the details about sellouts.
I seem to remember that at one point, American League teams counted the number of tickets sold, whereas National League teams reported the actual number of people who showed up to the game (i.e., how many buttocks in seats). The NL eventually started to follow the AL’s convention.
Divided by two, I take it, lest they wind up with an inflated attendance figure.
Unless the occasional one-buttocked fan shows up one day.
The Giants’ TV announcers are Duane Kuiper for play-by-play and Mike Krukow for color. If you were watching the Giants’ broadcast it was probably Krukow who was the storyteller.
He might be counter-balanced by the man with three buttocks.
Before the Giants the Phillies claimed the NL record with 257 straight sold out games, which some sources such as Deadspin say was questionable: