Red Sox's sellout streak ends

[Auggie]

BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox customarily announce that game's attendance in the press box, usually in the seventh inning or beyond. For 820 consecutive games, the announced attendance was followed by the words "sellout."

Wednesday night, anticipating the inevitable, the Red Sox issued a news release announcing their record streak of sellouts -- 820 (794 regular-season games and an additional 26 in the postseason) -- was ending.

Both the regular-season and overall streaks were the longest in major professional sports.

The previous record in Major League Baseball was 455 by the Cleveland Indians from 1995-2001, when they won six consecutive division titles and two American League pennants. The Red Sox surpassed that total on Sept. 8, 2008.

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I think 820 will be hard to top. Congratulations to the Bosox and their fans.

[joeybee12]

1. It was fraudulent...it would have ended last year but the owners

kept buying back the tix to keep the streak going.

[Auggie]

2. I didn't know that ...

For what reason? To extend a record they already own? People are so fucking crazy ...

[joeybee12]

3. Simply to extend the record...I was back east all summer and it was a big

deal in the local sports news about this...let's face it, last year was a mess...no one wanted to suffer through those games at the end.

[TZ]

5. the Phillies did some of the same stuff last year

They announced their sell out streak ended in like September. CBP was not even close to full for most of the second half of the season

[Renew Deal]

6. That, and the stadium is smaller than most MLB stadiums

[bluedigger]

7. Well, there's not much they can do about that.

Keeping the streak going was bs, but they have added as much seating as possible to Fenway.

[Renew Deal]

8. I agree

Fenway is a great stadium to visit. I think they've done the best they can with it.

[Kingofalldems]

4. I can't believe they use Gascanrahan as their closer

He did the same stuff here.