The Toronto Blue Jays may not be giving fans the kind of season they hoped for, but the appetite in the building has stayed enormous.
On Tuesday night at the Rogers Centre, the club reached a major franchise mark: one million Loonie Dogs consumed in a single MLB season. With 43,000 fans in attendance, the milestone was crossed during the Blue Jays’ 5-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals.
The Loonie Dog promotion started in 2019 at the Rogers Centre and runs every Tuesday home game, with Schneider’s glizzies priced at $1.
There is still one more Loonie Dog night left this season, on Sept. 15, and the total is projected to climb to 1.1 million hot dogs. That would top last year’s total of 826,308.
To mark the occasion, fans leaving the ballpark after the loss received a commemorative glizzy-themed T-shirt.
The biggest single-game total of the 2026 season came on April 7, when Blue Jays fans ate 102,202 hot dogs in nine innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
That works out to more than 2.5 hot dogs per fan.
Part of the surge in numbers this season may be tied to Toronto’s attendance spike. The Blue Jays are in the top five in MLB attendance for the first time in nine seasons, one of four teams averaging more than 40,000 fans per game. They’re also one of five MLB clubs on pace to draw more than three million fans this season.
Toronto also leads the league in attendance among teams with a losing record, and Tuesday Loonie Dog nights are producing the highest weekday crowds.
The numbers say plenty about the city’s baseball appetite: Blue Jays fans will show up for a bargain and, clearly, for a whole lot of hot dogs.
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