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| September 21, 2018 1:00 AM

Indians break single-season

attendance record

SPOKANE — The Spokane Indians broke the single-season team attendance record for the second straight year this season.

The Indians drew 198,423 fans to Avista Stadium over 38 home games in 2018, breaking the overall attendance record of 196,653 fans set in 2017.

Attendance at Avista Stadium has ranked in the top two in the Northwest League for 22 consecutive seasons. Spokane’s attendance is third in all of short-season class A baseball for the 2018 season, just behind another Northwest League club, the Vancouver Canadians (239,086), and the Brooklyn Cyclones (202,495).

Avista Stadium saw 11 total sellouts in 2018, while hosting over 7,000 fans on five occassions and over 6,000 fans for eight additional games. A season-high 7,057 fans showed up on June 15 for Opening Night Fireworks Night, one of 10 fireworks nights during the 2018 season.