The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team has had great support and attendance from their fans despite not having won a World Series game since 1988. As the interactive chart below shows, the team has only seen an overall seasonal drop in attendance below 3 million seven times over the last 31 years.
The drop in attendance seen in 1992 can be attributed to the team’s disappointing season having lost 99 games as well as the 1992 L.A. riots that resulted in three game cancellations. Even so, attendance again picked up in 1993.
In 1994, when attendance again dropped below 3 million, the MLB was experiencing a strike to resist salary caps that lasted 232 days. The baseball season ended early and resulted in the World Series being called off. Attendance rose steadily until it again exceeded 3 million in 1995.
The drop in attendance in 2011 coincides with the turmoil brought to the team by the then owner of the franchise, Frank McCourt. The Dodgers filed for bankruptcy and were eventually bought by the Guggenheim Baseball Partners.
The Dodgers have kept their seasonal attendance above 3 million since 2011.
Carolina Molina Data and Digital Journalism 