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After Game 1 Win, Giants Ticket Prices Skyrocket

On the heels an 8-3 win over the Detroit Tigers, already steep prices for Game 2 of the World Series rise even more. How high is too high?

Propelled by three Pablo Sandoval homers and stalwart pitching from Barry Zito, the San Francisco Giants rocketed to an 8-3 win in Game 1 of the 2012 World Series Wednesday night, and ticket prices for Thursday night’s Game 2 rose right along with the black and orange.

While prices on StubHub.com for Game 2 started at around $300 Wednesday, the lowest price by the end of Game 1 had risen to nearly $460 for standing room only tickets.

Those Game 2 tickets ranged to an astounding $19,000 Wednesday night, with around 2,400 tickets still available.

Tack on hefty parking prices of more than $40 per car and Giants fans heading to Game 2 are in for a pricey night.

Joellen Ferrer, spokeswoman for Stubhub, told the San Francisco Business Times that pricing “is still pretty on par with what we saw in 2010” when the Giants won the World Series over the Texas Rangers.

But overall Stubhub search traffic for Giants World Series tickets is up about 20 percent over search levels during the 2010 World Series, she said.

Craigslist was equally abuzz over Game 2 tickets, with one Marin County resident charging $1,800 for a pair of tickets and another seeking $6,000 for four tickets.

Those numbers had some thinking of a non-monetary strategy to get themselves into Game 2.

"I'd walk over to McCovey Cove, strip down to my skivvies and jump in if someone put two tickets in my hand right now," Ed Manalong, 50, of Daly City told the San Francisco Chronicle. "The prices people are charging are crazy, and with the economy this bad you have to be a little creative."

Are you going to Game 2? How high is too high for tickets? Tell us in the Comments!

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Bill October 25, 2012 at 03:20 am
. . . of course not!
area man October 25, 2012 at 10:18 am
Same price as the regular season in my living room. Great seat too. affordable hotdogs, And nobody cuts you off at the beer concession.
Dave October 25, 2012 at 01:04 pm
Dumb article. The market dictates price. If somebody wants to go badly enough, they'll pay. If not, they won't. Likewise, if somebody has tickets and wants to sell them the buyer can influence the price by withholding their money. I was at game #1 and there were empty seats...probably because sellers refused to come down to "reasonable" prices. And the value of the game #1 ticket as soon as the first pitch crossed the plate was zero.
Carol Parker October 25, 2012 at 04:56 pm
Let's see what those prices are on stub hub closer to game time. I have found prices to sometimes be outrageous on stub hub, but then if I wait and buy them an hour or so before game time they have come down in price.
Geoff Burton October 26, 2012 at 01:30 am
My tactic at concerts back in the day was, if I didn't have a ticket I was perfectly willing to wait til the opening act was on stage and the buy a ticket from a scalper at less than face value ( much of the time).I'm sure that holds true for the series ball games if any tickets are left.
Ric Duley October 26, 2012 at 02:21 pm
Ticket prices fall after the first pitch but they are hardly valueless.
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