Empty Yankees Stadium On Season’s Final Home Game Shows The Fan’s Disappointment

The 2023 New York Yankees season has been a colossal letdown.

Monday night, that dissatisfaction was manifested in the form of a largely empty Yankee Stadium. On a wet, miserable day in the Bronx, the Yankees played their home finale against the Arizona Diamondbacks, a day after they were eliminated from the postseason.

Almost no one turned up.

Empty Yankees Stadium On Season’s Final Home Game Shows The Fan’s Disappointment

Only a few thousand fans bothered to turn out on a chilly and rainy afternoon in The Bronx for the Yankees’ final home game of the season, a make-up of Saturday’s rainout versus the Diamondbacks.

It occurred a day after the Yankees were officially ruled out of the playoffs for the first time since 2016.

The Yankees entered the game 41-39 at the Stadium and got the win 6-4  over Arizona.

They averaged an AL-best 40,349 fans per game this season.

The Yankees reported a paid attendance of 41,096 people. They did not reveal the true attendance, which plainly included many fewer fans.

To be fair, the paid attendance number was from the game’s initial Saturday date, which was moved to Monday due to poor weather. The Saturday date also included Aaron Judge bobbleheads for the first 18,000 spectators in honour of the slugger’s 62-home run season last season.

“When you don’t show up and you don’t produce and you get kicked out like this in the regular season, that’s a big failure right there,” Aaron Judge said of the Yankees season on Sunday.

“We got a lot of work to do, a lot of internal talks, a lot of  stuff we gotta get figured out and get right for next year.”

Before the game, Yankees manager Aaron Boone expressed uncertainty about his future with the team.

“I think that will be part of the conversations we have organizationally,” Boone said. “I’ll step back and evaluate where I want to keep pushing forward on certain things and where you want to make adjustments. Hopefully, those align with us being in a better place.”

“And whether we won 100 games and were going to the playoffs, that reflection and evaluation doesn’t really change. You’re always trying to get better … All I can do is the best I can do.”

The Yankees have been out of the playoffs since Saturday. The Yankees also drew the bobbleheads. When they announced the delay, they also stated that the Judge bobbleheads would have to wait. Until 2024.

 

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