The Giants are trying to lure people back to Oracle Park with a simple message: the seats are cheap, and the beer deal is even cheaper.
With San Francisco sitting 22.5 games out of first place, mired in a five-game losing streak and already locked into a fifth straight postseason miss, the club is cutting ticket prices for the stretch run of a rough season. A back-to-school flash sale announced last week offers tickets for July, August and September starting at $8 in the upper deck, $12 in the bleachers and as low as $20 in club level. The team says those prices are 40% below average.
There’s also a more old-school attendance push for the remaining July home games: a ticket-and-beer package starting at $19. Each ticket in that promotion includes a $17 concession voucher, which can be used on any concession but is being steered toward a Coors Light, one of the team’s sponsors. Both offers begin when the Giants return home on Friday night.
Even with the season going sideways, the Giants still rank among the league’s better draws. Their average attendance of 36,646 is sixth in MLB.
But the trend line has started to bend downward. At the end of June, the club was averaging 37,212 per game.
During the seven-game homestand that opened July, that number fell to 33,413, and the ballpark looked emptier than even that figure suggested. The only game that cracked 35,000 during that stretch was Saturday, July 11, when the Giants handed out aloha shirts.
The drop in attendance hasn’t come from one source. The 2026 schedule front-loaded marquee visits from the Yankees, Dodgers and Padres before Mother’s Day, which meant Oracle Park was packed early even as the Giants stumbled.
Cubs and A’s fans also turned out in June, but that came during the team’s Pride Night debacle, when many fans said they would not come back after the way the club handled the situation. Some even asked for, and got, refunds on tickets they had already bought.
But the biggest reason the park has started to thin out is the product on the field. The Giants will try to snap their losing streak this weekend against the Angels, one of the two MLB teams with a worse record than San Francisco.
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