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Excitement has been building among Los Angeles Dodgers fans for Shohei Ohtani's Dodger Stadium debut against the St. Louis Cardinals on March 28.
The sensational two-way player will pull on blue and white for the first time, but the prices for that game will break their hearts.
Tickets will not be cheap, as expected considering fans will need to cram into the 56,000 seat stadium. However, they won't see him pitch due to an injury he sustained at the end of his Los Angeles Angels stint.
What is the cost of a ticket to see Ohtani's Dodger Stadium debut?
The average ticket cost for the game at 1:30 p.m. local time (4:30 p.m. ET) is a whopping $533, USA Today reported.
For Ohtani fans, having to pay more than $500 is an unimaginable figure, and many fans can't afford it.
Most incredible of all, that cost might seem like a bargain, as it is expected that throughout the 2024 Major League Baseball season, some tickets to see the Dodgers will cost as much as $985, according to Fox Los Angeles.
Tickets for the Dodgers' Opening Day game against the Cardinals on Thursday, March 28, could go much higher as game day approaches.
Why are tickets to Dodgers vs Cardinals so expensive?
The media reported that this is the cost of a ticket on sale on the StubHub portal, because the demand from fans to see Ohtani, along with his compatriot Yoshinobu Yamamoto, has caused the ticket price to be so exaggeratedly high.
The Dodgers took a risk during the offseason by signing the two Japanese players at a high monetary cost.
Ohtani signed the most expensive contract in US sports history by agreeing to a 10-year, $700 million deal after snatching it from the neighboring Angels.
And they followed that up with another outrageous arrival by signing Yamamoto over a huge number of MLB teams seeking him, but he settled with the Angels for 12 years and $325 million.