Father's Day crowds reach Sunday heights not seen in over 15 years

Baseball and Father’s Day -- always a perfect match.

That rang especially true this year, as Major League Baseball’s Father’s Day slate drew an average of 39,255 fans per game, marking the highest average attendance on any Sunday since Father’s Day in 2008.

But it wasn’t only the holiday schedule that packed the stands. Fans turned out in big numbers all weekend long, with nearly 1.7 million spectators attending games from Friday through Sunday. In total, MLB drew 1,677,850 fans across the three days, the second-largest 45-game weekend attendance figure in the past 17 seasons.

And those fans were treated to plenty of memorable moments, including Shohei Ohtani’s 250th career homer (part of a multihomer effort in Los Angeles against the Giants on Saturday), the Reds’ Elly De La Cruz extending his home run streak to four games and the Red Sox sweeping the Yankees at Fenway Park before shockingly trading Rafael Devers to the Giants -- just to name a few.