Royals-Mets World Series ticket prices are among the highest ever

Overall average prices for tickets to the 2015 World Series are the highest on record, and for that we can blame New York.

According to the online ticket broker TiqIQ.com, Mets fans are shelling out record prices on the resale market to see their heroes play at home in their team’s first World Series in 15 years.

That’s not to say that tickets to the first two games at Kauffman Stadium are a steal. SeatGeek.com said that as of Monday morning, the average resale price for tickets to Tuesday’s game was $755, and more than $780 for Wednesday.

But those listing prices were down 19 percent from what sellers were asking about the time the Royals clinched a Series berth late Friday.

Asking prices were also slightly below what they were in 2014, SeatGeek analyst Chris Leyden said, when the Royals made their first World Series appearance in nearly three decades.

Median ticket prices for games three and four at Citi Field in New York were $1,128 and $1,089.

If a game five in New York is necessary, Leyden said, “it is currently on pace to be the second most expensive World Series game of the past five years,” with a median ticket price of $1,150.

Only the the $1,175 median price for the sixth and final game of the 2013 Series in Boston between the Red Sox and Cardinals was higher.

A spot check Monday of StubHub.com, the Royals’ official ticket resale partner, showed standing room only tickets to Tuesday’s game going for as low as $308, while a seat close to the field in Section 128 behind home plate was listed at $1,470.

As always in the postseason, there’s a slim chance you might get tickets at face value through the team at Royals.com. Although all the games are sold out, tickets reserved for Major League Baseball and others are sometimes returned. It pays to keep checking.

And those with a bit of luck might win a couple of tickets through the team’s ticket sweepstakes.

But for anyone wanting a sure thing, buying tickets during the postseason is never cheap. As always, be careful making that expensive purchase, said Steve Shiffman, the Royals’ senior director of sales and service.

“Major events bring out the criminal element, which takes advantage of people,” he said in an email.

Most online and storefront ticket resellers guarantee the tickets they sell are genuine. Be wary, Shiffman said, of buying tickets through Craigslist or from scalpers in parking lots and street corners.

“I just want to emphasize that the Royals are not responsible for third-party transactions,” he said, “and I always unfortunately hear very sad stories how people spent a lot of money and get turned away from the gates for bad tickets.”

This story was originally published October 26, 2015 at 12:55 PM with the headline "Royals-Mets World Series ticket prices are among the highest ever."