Chris Matcovich, the vice president for data and"munications at TiqIQ, a ticket aggregator, said in an email that the market for Jeter's last game in New York and in Boston was "one of the craziest we have seen" in terms of initial demand and how quickly tickets were taken off resale websites by brokers.At 2 p.m., just before the announcement, a seat to the Yankees-Orioles game on Sept. Ford Scanner USB Scan Tool 25 could be purchased for as low as $26. By 4:30 p.m., the price had inflated by more than 350 percent to $280 — for a cheap seat. The average ticket price, by early evening, exceeded $800.Matcovich said the market was even more bullish than when Mariano Rivera announced his retirement on March 9 last year. Ford Scanner USB Scan ToolAt its peak that day, average ticket prices for the final home game rose to $467.06 and wound up falling by nearly 50 percent by the day of the game.
The ticket prices for the final Sunday matinee at Fenway also skyrocketed, Matcovich said, to more than $200 from a low of $91 before Jeter's announcement. The Red Sox had a two-game flex pack that included Game 162 against the Yankees, but it sold out less than two hours later.Connor Gregoire, a"munications analyst for SeatGeek, another ticket marketplace, r"mended that fans sit tight and allow the hysteria to die down, citing the extent to which prices dropped for Rivera's last home game last season.Gregoire noted that the Yankees had not opened their single-game ticket sales for 2014.AutoExpert 500 The home finale is expected to sell out in minutes, but the inventory should flood the market, and prices should drop considerably.
Of course, by September there is a good chance that fans will know whether the Yankees will be bound for the playoffs, which would alter the frenzy over watching Jeter's last regular-season appearance.But if fans do not want to risk missing out, they had better be prepared to pay a hefty sum.Jim Boeheim raised his arms and ran down the sideline with a grin on his face. C.J. Fair leapt in the air and pumped his fist. The Syracuse bench poured onto the court in search of a teammate to hug.Everyone clad in Orange reacted with exactly the level of shock and joy you'd expect after Tyler Ennis' game-winning shot except for the guy who hit it.