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Thursday, September 18, 2025

No Outbreaks Linked To Rangers’ Large Crowds

  • Attendance at Globe Life Field is more than double the MLB average so far this season.
  • While games outdoors are considered safer then indoor events, there are areas that concern experts.
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The Texas Rangers have averaged 27,300 fans in their six home games — nearly 65% more than the MLB average through the first weeks of the season. 

Better yet: There’s no indication that those larger crowds have led to increased COVID transmission. 

Globe Life Field, the lone MLB stadium at full capacity so far in 2021, drew the largest crowd at a U.S. sporting event since the pandemic shutdown with its official Opening Day attendance of 38,238. Free tickets given to medical workers pushed that count toward 40,300. 

“In general, we feel like things have gone about as we expected with fans and seems to be consistent across the league in discussions with other teams,” Rangers spokesman John Blake told Front Office Sports.

Arlington’s Tarrant County has fully vaccinated 25.8% of the population ages 16 and older as of Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Nearby Dallas County has fully vaccinated 26.89% in the same category. 

Neither county has seen significant spikes in COVID-19 cases since the start of the season. 

The Rangers acknowledged that multiple workers tested positive for COVID-19 last fall at the NLCS and World Series. Officials were unaware of any community spread, and tickets were sold in four-seat “pods” for better social distancing, a person with knowledge of the matter told Front Office Sports. 

Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding told FOS there’s less risk in attending a baseball game than an indoor event with limited ventilation. He also wishes that the media would emphasize the real problem areas of ballpark activity.

“I wish whenever people show baseball games, they show how long the lines are for the concession and the bathrooms. That’s what people need to see.”

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