Toronto Blue Jays fans hope to hit a home run with a seated ticket to one of World Series Home games may have already begun, and available tickets are already $2,000 or more just two hours after going on sale.
Tickets for home matches are on sale ticket master Canada website at 10 a.m. ET, and those who got through the line early may have won low-cost tickets.
At about 10:30 a.m., this Global News journalist was about 290,000 people in line for a Game 1 ticket.
But by about 11:30 a.m., most of the tickets that were still available were considered “Verified Resale.”
While there is one ticket for Game 1 in section 510 at Rogers Center that will cost someone $1,723 including tax, most are $2,000 or more. For example, someone hoping to sit closer to the field in Section 135 would have to shell out $4,954.
A ticket for row 12 in section 123 sells for $7,198.
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Tickets on StubHub Canada are no better: a Section 522 ticket costs $2,495 including fees, while a Section 123 ticket costs $7,597.
This isn't the first time ticket prices have skyrocketed just hours after they went on sale on Ticketmaster.
Costs have risen sharply in the past year Tickets for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in Toronto, a ticket costs about $4,654 on StubHub and $4,500 on SeatGeek.
Accusations of restricting access or price gouging by various ticket companies or resellers have been common practice over the years, from ball games to music concerts.
Daniel Tsai, a professor of business and law at Metropolitan University of Toronto, told Global News that Ticketmaster and parent company LiveNation “control” the primary ticketing market while having some control over the resale market.
A screenshot from the Ticketmaster app shows high ticket prices for Game 1 of the World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays two hours after tickets went on sale on October 21, 2025.
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“The lack of regulations and competition allow one large dominant force, LiveNation Ticketmaster, to control the concert, entertainment and sports ticketing industry,” Tsai said last year.
He added that sharp price increases when tickets are in high demand mean Canadians and other buyers will have to “pay a fortune” either for original tickets or on the resale market.
Game 1 is Friday, pitting the Jays against the 2024 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
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