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Miami Marlins See Major Attendance Jump in 2023 as Team Still in Playoff Contention

As the Miami Marlins fight for their first playoff berth since 2020, they made substantial strides in attendance numbers in 2023.

Brady Farkas

Miami Marlins See Major Attendance Jump in 2023 as Team Still in Playoff Contention
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The Miami Marlins have made substantial gains on the field in 2023, and as a result, they have made substantial gains at the box office.

Per @MarlinsComms on social media:

The Marlins today concluded the home slate of the 2023 regular season at loanDepot park, having hosted 1,162,819 fans over the 81 games. It marks the first season with more than 1 million fans since 2017, and is nearly a 30 percent increase over the club's 2022 attendance total.

The Marlins are looking for their first playoff berth since the COVID 2020 season and enter play on Monday at 81-75 and 1.0 game back of the third and final wild card spot in the National League.

They trail both the Cubs and Diamondbacks by 1.0 game so they will be rooting for both teams to lose over the final week of the regular season.

The Marlins are back in action on Tuesday night when they travel to New York to take on the Mets.

First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m. ET as Marlins' lefty Braxton Garrett pitches against Mets' lefty Joey Lucchesi. Garrett will enter that game at 9-6 with a 3.53 ERA while Lucchesi is 3-0 with a 2.88 ERA.

For scoreboard watching purposes on Tuesday:

The Cubs will travel to Atlanta to take on the best team in baseball, the Braves. Justin Steele (CHC) will pitch against Bryce Elder (ATL).

The Diamondbacks will take on the White Sox in Chicago. First pitch is set for 7:40 p.m. as Zach Davies (ARI) goes up against Jose Urena (CWS).

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Brady Farkas
BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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