“We’re going to feel like we’re going to play at home”
— David Peralta before Game 3 of the NLDS at Chase Field
As the Arizona Diamondbacks bulldozed their way through the postseason, slights like this one were the kind of bulletin-board material that kept the team ready to prove their skeptics wrong.
Still, the facts are the facts. In the same article, Bill Shaikin notes that when the Los Angeles Dodgers played at Chase Field, attendance rose by 27%. And it’s not like Chase has been an attendance magnet: 2008 was the last year the D-backs were in the top half of MLB attendance.