Home run: The Greenville Drive’s 2024 season by the numbers

It was another league-leading year for attendance at Fluor Field as we break down the Greenville Drive’s 2024 season in hot dogs eaten, beers poured, and home runs hit.

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The Drive finished the season with 37 wins.

Photo by the Greenville Drive

Going, going, gone. Just like that, The Greenville Drive’s season is over, and it was a home run. This season, 310,000 fans filled the stands of Fluor Field from opening day to the final home stand last week — that’s a league-leading number for the fifth year in a row.

To celebrate, here are more 10 more season highlights by the numbers:

  • 66 home games
  • 131 home runs hit
  • 21 players promoted to the AA Portland Sea Dogs (hey, PDXtoday)
  • 75,000 ballpark hot dogs consumed
  • 12,000 Rallyville Lagers poured
  • 11,500 Drive ball caps purchased
  • 116,000 Michelin Reading All-Stars celebrated
  • 21,000 scoops of ice cream served at Sweet Caroline’s
  • 275 units of blood collected for The Blood Connection
  • 1,000 TD Bank t-shirts tossed
  • Bonus: At the first Black Spinners + Jackie Robinson celebration, students received $1.5 million in scholarships.

The countdown is on for the 2025 season, but the ballpark fun doesn’t end when baseball does. Save the date for events every weekend this month (and beyond):

Keep up to date with events at Fluor Field and around Greenville by bookmarking our events calendar.

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