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Green for Red Sox: bleacher tickets start at $125
(Handout photo from Ace Ticket)
By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff
October baseball means playoff prices at Fenway Park, where seats for tonight's game sold by ticket brokers and scalpers start at $125 and top $2,000.
On the website for StubHub, standing-room-only tickets are selling for $127.50 to $175. A single grandstand ticket on eBay this morning was $225. On Craigslist, a pair of tickets started at $300.
"People are very excited about this game," said Jim Holzman, president of Ace Ticket, where the least expensive ticket for tonight is a $125 bleacher seat. "The last time we were in the playoffs we started on the road and got swept."
For the opportunity to buy tickets from the team, fans had to be selected in a random drawing on RedSox.com. Major League Baseball set ticket prices, which were $25 for bleachers, $45 for grandstands, and went up to $350 for seats behind homeplate. All three home games for the divisional series sold out.
Ticket sellers expected that tonight's game against the Angels will be the least expensive of the playoffs -- a Wednesday game with an early start time of 6:30 p.m. As the postseason continues, prices are expected to increase exponentially. Tickets for game 5 of the divisional series, which will only be played if necessary, start at $200 apiece.
"You can truly get a good value at tonight's game," Holzman said. "You can buy a seat for $125, which isn’t bad for a playoff game."
