If White Sox fans want to walk through the gates at Rate Field Wednesday, they’ll need to get their hands on the priciest ticket in the divisional series round, according to several national ticket broker sites.
A single ticket on TickPick for the Sox-Guardians American League Division Series matchup jumped to $327 on Monday, up from $250 Thursday, making it the most expensive American or National League Division Series game on its platform — a surprising ascension considering the star power and markets of some of the remaining teams, including the Dodgers, Yankees and Padres.
“Chicago fans are showing early on that they’re hungry for playoff baseball, and depending on the outcome of this series, we’d expect that demand to carry through their postseason run,” Kyle Zorn, director of content at New York City-based TickPick, said. “When you consider that White Sox fans watched this team post the worst record in modern MLB history just two seasons ago and now they’re watching them compete in the ALDS, that turnaround is going to help set the floor for ticket prices in Chicago as the postseason continues.”
The club’s historic turnaround — fueled by young, rising stars and other teams’ castaways — has been nothing short of remarkable, with the Sox entering the 2026 season with three straight years of at least 100 losses, including a modern day record 121 losses in 2024.
Meanwhile, the average purchase price for Game 3 on TickPick continues to rise and could end up as the most expensive Sox ticket in five years. When the team last hosted a Game 3 in the ALDS, in 2021 against the Astros, the average ticket cost $242.
StubHub has sold nearly twice as many tickets for Wednesday’s game compared to an average regular-season home game, with the get-in price at $310 on Monday. Prices had been slightly higher on Saturday, at $336.
Game 3 has a price premium of roughly 330% over the team’s regular-season average price, with fans paying four times the price of a typical Sox ticket.
The premium is also the most of any home team in a divisional series playoff this year. The Brewers and Padres are a distant second, with premiums of 230% to 280%, according to the New York City-based ticketing platform.
“White Sox fans are celebrating their first playoff series win since 2005, and the demand shows it,” said Jill Gonzalez, StubHub’s head of consumer, product and tech communications.
The game is also the most expensive of the 12 guaranteed divisional series games on TicketNetwork, according to the Connecticut-based platform.
The cheapest get-in price on that site had soared to $464 by Monday afternoon, up from $421 Saturday afternoon after the Sox beat the Guardians 3-0 in Game 1. Friday morning, ticket prices had hovered at $269.
And the average ticket price is about $792, well above the median price of $620, TicketNetwork shows.
In terms of tickets sold, the average ticket price was about $366, or 78% higher than the 2021 game against the Astros, which hit $206.
Demand for this year’s Sox home playoff tickets on TicketNetwork are much higher than that of other teams. Overall prices for the other ALDS and NLDS games are comparable to recent years, from 2021 to 2025, but the anomaly are Sox games, which are outpacing all others by a wide margin.
The next closest get-in price for a divisional series home game was $179 for Game 1 at Cleveland’s Progressive Field, likely bolstered by the well-traveled Sox fan base. Chicago fans could be heard cheering throughout the game broadcast.
“What’s unusual this year isn’t the division series market as a whole — it’s Chicago,” Sean Burns, TicketNetwork’s director of communications and public affairs, said. “When a fan base has waited a long time for a meaningful home playoff moment, that can create its own kind of premium.”