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Sep 21, 2025, 04:19 PM ET

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers have drawn 4 million fans this season for the first time in franchise history, becoming just the 10th team in major league history to reach that mark.

Los Angeles is the first MLB team to draw 4 million fans since the New York Mets and Yankees did it in 2008.

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The defending World Series champion Dodgers topped the mark with 46,601 fans attending their regular-season home finale against the San Francisco Giants on Sunday. They finished the 2025 regular season with a total attendance of 4,012,470 – an average of 49,537 per game.

“For these fans to post and show up every day, it’s incredible,” manager Dave Roberts said. “There’s a reason I feel we have the best fans in sports. The numbers speak to it. You can tell this past weekend, the emotion of the fans and how the players responded. It’s been great.”

The Yankees drew 4 million fans from 2005 to 2008 in each of their final four years at the old Yankee Stadium, while the Toronto Blue Jays did it in 1991, 1992 and 1993. The Colorado Rockies also hit the mark in 1993 while playing at cavernous Mile High Stadium.

The Dodgers list the capacity of Dodger Stadium, which opened in 1962, at an MLB-high 56,000. They’ve led the major leagues in attendance in 12 of the past 13 seasons since 2013, falling short only in 2020 amid restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Dodgers have clinched a postseason berth for the 13th consecutive year since 2013, matching the second-longest playoff streak in baseball history during a stretch that includes two World Series championships and four NL pennants.

Their large fan base and Shohei Ohtani’s worldwide popularity explains why the Dodgers also lead the majors in road attendance, drawing an average of 35,118 fans to opposing parks so far in 2025. Los Angeles finishes the regular season on a six-game trip to Arizona and Seattle.

Los Angeles had crowds with more than 50,000 fans at 46 of its 81 home games this season, and the team never had a crowd under 40,000. The Dodgers keep their fans happy by winning, but also by holding a generous number of fan giveaways during the season, including more than a dozen high-profile bobblehead nights.

The Dodgers didn’t top 3 million in attendance in Chavez Ravine until the 1978 season, but they’ve now done it 36 times.

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Two decades after she made her first appearance at the meeting, world record-holder Barbora Spotakova notched up her 10th javelin victory at the Odlozil Memorial, winning with 60.21m at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting in Prague on Monday (7).

In a contest that was held in memoriam of 1952 Olympic javelin champion Dana Zatopkova, Spotakova took the lead in the first round with 58.81m and then improved to 60.21m in the following round, coming within four centimetres of the season’s best she had set just a few days prior.

The two-time Olympic champion from the Czech Republic rounded out her series with a 59.85m effort in the final round. Greek U20 thrower Elina Tzengko was second with 57.92m.

Spotakova, 39, first competed at the Odlozil Memorial as a teenager back in 2001, around about the time she was considering a switch from the heptathlon to the javelin. In 2007 she achieved her first victory at the meet, then set a meeting record of 68.81m there one year later. She went on to win seven more times at this meeting between 2009 and 2017 before adding a 10th triumph on Monday.

Pavel Mialeshka led a Belarusian 1-2 in the men’s javelin. Aliaksei Katkavets held the early lead with his opening effort of 82.91m, but Mialeshka took the lead in round four with 85.06m, breaking his PB from four years ago. 2013 world champion Vitezslav Vesely was third with a season’s best of 82.63m.

World finalist Iryna Zhuk added to the Belarusian success, winning the women’s pole vault with 4.65m.

Namibian teenager Christine Mboma came from behind to win the women’s 200m in a national and meeting record of 22.67 (1.2m/s). The 18-year-old overtook Gina Bass (22.76) and Beatrice Masilingi (22.82) in the closing stages.

Liberia’s Emmanuel Matadi won the men’s 100m in 10.07 (0.8m/s), holding off a strong challenge from Panama’s 2009 world 200m silver medallist Alonso Edward (10.09).

In the men’s 1500m – the specialist distance of 1964 Olympic silver medallist Josef Odlozil, after whom the meeting is named – was won by Kenya’s Boaz Kiprugut in a PB of 3:35.26.

Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

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