Canadians are being shut out from buying Toronto Blue Jays playoff tickets in New York
The New York Yankees are gatekeeping home playoff tickets, and Toronto Blue Jays fans in Canada aren’t allowed to purchase any.
With the ALDS slated to begin this weekend, the Yankees are battling it out with the Boston Red Sox in the AL Wild Card series for a shot at the Blue Jays. No matter who wins, the Jays will host the first two games of the five-game series starting on Saturday.
Games 3 and 4 will move over to either Yankee Stadium in New York or Fenway Park in Boston. Both are relatively close to Toronto, which should make it easier for fans to follow the team on the road, but the Yankees aren’t too fond of that idea.
With the MLB postseason opening up on Monday, it was revealed that the Yankees aren’t allowing any fans outside of the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut to purchase playoff tickets on Ticketmaster.
That means that if the Yankees advance to play the Blue Jays in the ALDS, Canadian fans will be shut out of buying tickets for the two games being hosted in New York.
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This policy will be enforced by checking the credit card billing address on purchase. If the address doesn’t reside in any of those four states, the purchase will be cancelled and refunded.
They are also enforcing this on the Wild Card Series, meaning that Red Sox fans from Massachusetts will also not be allowed to follow their team to Yankee Stadium.
On the surface, this may seem like a team trying to limit opposing fans from taking over their ballpark during the postseason, but the Yankees are insisting that isn’t the case. In a statement made to the CBC, the team said this was done to combat ticket scalping.
Interestingly, the Yankees are the only team currently enforcing this policy, as the Blue Jays and Red Sox are not putting these types of restrictions on their postseason ticket sales.
It’s disappointing, but there is a chance that this doesn’t matter at all. New York has to win their best-of-three series against the Red Sox for this to even affect Jays fans. Game 1 of that series gets underway on Monday night.
Blue Jays fans looking to get into the action in Toronto are in luck, as Games 1, 2, and 5 will all be held at Rogers Centre. Tickets for those home games, however, are skyrocketing in price.
As if Blue Jays fans didn’t need another reason to root against the Yankees.