Rockies attendance still up after nightmare first half of season

They don’t call Coors Field, the home of the Colorado Rockies, the best bar in Denver for nothing.

With great sunset views of the Rocky Mountains, cheap beer deals on the Rooftop before first pitch and some extravagant food options, many Denverites flock to the ballpark in the evening to enjoy a night out, not to watch the baseball team that loses nearly 80% of the games they play there.

The Rockies have a 22-74 record at the All-Star break, just over halfway through the season, a new record for most losses by a major league team at the break after the Chicago White Sox set the record with 71 a season ago. Their run differential is -253, they are on pace to have the worst record in baseball’s modern era, and there isn’t exactly a whole lot of light at the end of the tunnel (unless recent first-round pick Ethan Holliday can magically get things going the second he gets to the big leagues).

It’s not looking good for them to turn it around either.

As much as the Rockies have played better under interim manager Warren Schaeffer, avoiding 122 losses and setting the modern day record for most defeats may be impossible.

Colorado has the toughest schedule remaining in MLB. pic.twitter.com/WgdbBCgvo5

— Patrick Lyons (@PatrickDLyons) July 9, 2025

However, the Rockies fans (what percentage of people in the park on any given night are actually Rockies fans?) don’t seem to care, as the club is in the top half of league-wide attendance at the break, sitting at No. 14. The Blake Street Bombers have sold an average of 30,128 tickets per game, almost 2,000 more than the Detroit Tigers, a team that has won 37 more games than the Rockies and sits atop the American League.

For all the cries for Dick Monfort and the rest of the family that now has total control of the franchise to sell the team, this stat doesn’t exactly back up those calls. He is still getting plenty of money put in his pocket at the end of the day, the last thing that would make him sell the team. As someone who is in his 28th year with a franchise that hasn’t done a lot of winning, it’s clear that winning isn’t at the forefront of his mind. He has catered this ballpark to welcome in non-baseball fans, and in turn, it has continued to put money in his pockets.

While that number is down from 2024 (31,361) and is the lowest number that Coors Field has put up since the pandemic limited capacity in the park. Even the number has slowly been dwindling each year since 2022, it’s not enough to move the needle. Given the recent trends around the league, it seems that number could go back up in the near future, no matter how bad the Rockies are.

MLB heads into the All-Star Break with strong momentum both on and off the field.

Shorter games and more fan-friendly experiences at the ballpark are driving attendance — the league is up 10% in attendance overall since the new rules were adopted in 2023.… pic.twitter.com/OSkQaoDS0L

— Sports Business Journal (@SBJ) July 14, 2025

The pitch clock has made baseball a more entertaining in-person product for people looking for a fun way to get out of the house, which is awesome for the game and its growth. However, for Rockies fans who have made the decision to boycott going to the park in order to put less money in Monfort’s deep pockets, they are going to need more support in boycotting the games, because the large amount of people who just moved to Denver and don’t care about Rockies baseball aren’t going to be on the same page as them.

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