Tigers’ Opening Day Sells Out, Limited Tickets Still Available

Mo. Basuony

Published: April 2, 2026 6:06 AM ET

The Detroit Tigers announced a sellout for Friday’s home opener against the St. Louis Cardinals at Comerica Park. The game starts at 1:10 p.m. and will air on Detroit SportsNet and Fox 2.

While the headline reads Tigers’ Opening Day Sells Out, Limited Tickets Still Available, standing-room options remain. The team website lists standing-room-only tickets at $128.80 each.

Ticket availability and secondary markets

Primary-market standing-room tickets are still listed on tigers.com. Price for those seats is $128.80 apiece.

Secondary markets show many options. StubHub listings begin around $150 for two seats in the third level left field.

StubHub labels Opening Day as a “hottest event.” Games 2 and 3 appear as “selling fast.”

Special offers

The club is promoting Justin Verlander’s weekend start. A special ticket package includes a blue-and-orange “WELCOME HOME” T-shirt.

Those special tickets start at $28.66 and are available through tigers.com.

Weekend schedule and storyline

Ticket sales are strong for Saturday and Sunday games. Historically, attendance drops from Game 1 to Game 2.

This season that decline may be smaller. Game 2 falls on a Saturday with forecast highs near the low 70s, though rain is possible later.

Sunday’s Game 3 will be nationally televised on Peacock’s “Sunday Night Baseball.” It marks Verlander’s first Detroit start as a Tiger since August 20, 2017.

Attendance history and context

Comerica Park opened in 2000. The Tigers have sold out every home opener there since, except for pandemic seasons in 2020 and 2021.

The park’s first Opening Day crowd in 2000 was 39,168. The team has topped 40,000 most years since, outside the pandemic seasons.

Largest Opening Day crowd at Comerica Park: 45,068 in 2014.
Attendance over 44,000 for each of the last three years, including 44,735 last year.
Overall Tigers home-opener record: 71-53-1, from April 25, 1901 to April 4, 2025.
Comerica Park home-opener record: 17-9, including 14-3 since 2009.

In 2025, the Tigers played their first three home games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Attendance fell to just over 26,000 for Game 2 and about 20,000 for Game 3. Temperatures then were in the 40s.

The club drew more than 2.4 million fans in 2025. That total was their best since 2016. Management hopes to exceed three million fans this season.