How do you buy tickets for MLB playoff / world series games? I don't understand the logistics.?

Question

If the cubs or white sox are playing in the playoffs or world series, I'd be able to go...but how do you buy tickets for games that don't have determined teams already? Thanks.

Answer 1

well you cant really buy tickets with this much time in advance. you have to stay tuned into MLB.com and wait to see when they release them. you might want to sign up thru mlb.com as a club member for the white sox or cubs and you will get promotional emails and news about it first before it goes out to the public. Once the season starts coming to an end, and they kinda start determining the teams that will end up in the playoffs, then they start releasing tickets, but sometimes they warn you that you are buying at your own risk, if for any reason that team doesnt make it or lets say you bought tickets for game 5 and the series only goes to game 4, you loose your money.  

Answer 2

MLB tends not to authorize teams to begin selling playoff tickets until mid-September at the earliest -- and even then, some teams permitted to sell tickets will not make it, in which case the ticket prices are refunded (but not, note, the various fees that middlemen brokers slap on). (Or you can keep the "phantom tickets" and let the money go. There are still Phillies 1964 World Series tickets out there.)

Teams will typically sell blocs of tickets by round -- Division, Championship, and World Series -- without knowing the opponent. They know the home dates, and that's good enough. Games not played (say, Game 6, but the series ends in five) can likewise be refunded.

Thought example: the #2 seed AL team finishes off its Division Serines in three straight; it could play either the #1 seed (and so have home games for 3, 4, and 5) or the #4 seed (home #1, 2, 6, 7). They may sell a bloc of four tickets for "games A, B, C, D". If they play #1, games A, B, and C correspond to Games 3, 4, and 5 (if necessary), and the Game D ticket is meaningless. Conversely, if they play seed #4, tickets for A, B, C, and D correspond to Games 1, 2, 6 (if necessary), and 7 (if necessary), with refunds if the series ends short.

It's a bit of a racket, as the various teams immediately dump the monies into interest-earning accounts, so even if they have to hand back most of it, they pick up some coin on the side.

Answer 3

go to ticketmaster.com