Toronto Blue Jays fans hoping to attain a house run with a seated ticket to one in all the World Series games at home can have already struck out, with available tickets already costing $2,000 or more barely two hours after occurring sale.
Seated tickets for home games went on sale on Ticketmaster Canada’s website at 10 a.m. eastern time, and those that got through the queue early can have scored low-cost tickets.
At about 10:30 a.m., this Global News journalist was about 290,000th in line for a Game 1 ticket.
But by about 11:30 a.m., most tickets that were still available were already considered “Verified Resale.”
While there may be a single ticket for Game 1 in section 510 on the Rogers Centre that can cost someone $1,723, taxes included, most are priced at $2,000 or higher. Someone hoping to take a seat closer to the sector in section 135, for instance, can have to shovel out $4,954.
A ticket in row 12 of section 123 is selling for $7,198.
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Tickets on StubHub Canada are not any higher, with a ticket for section 522 costing $2,495 including fees, while a piece 123 ticket goes for $7,597.
It’s not the primary time ticket prices have soared barely hours after they went on sale on Ticketmaster.
Last yr, costs skyrocketed for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour tickets in Toronto, with a ticket costing about $4,654 on StubHub and $4,500 on SeatGeek.
Allegations of restricted access or price gouging by either the assorted ticketing corporations or resellers has been a standard practice for years, starting from ball games to music concert events.
Daniel Tsai, business and law professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, told Global News that Ticketmaster and parent company LiveNation “control” the first marketplace for ticket sales while having some control over the resale market.
A screen grab of the Ticketmaster app shows high prices for World Series Game 1 tickets for the Toronto Blue Jays two hours after tickets went on sale on Oct. 21, 2025.
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“There’s lack of regulations and no competition that’s allowed one big dominant force, LiveNation Ticketmaster, to regulate the concert and entertainment and sporting ticket industry,” Tsai said last yr.
He added that surge pricing, when tickets go in high demand, means Canadians and other buyers are left “paying a fortune” either for the unique tickets or on the resale market.
Game 1 is about to happen Friday, with the Jays to face off against the 2024 World Series champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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