PHOENIX — Spring training attendance in Arizona increased for the third straight year with help due to both World Series teams playing in the Cactus League and Shohei Ohtani’s movement in Los Angeles.

Despite traveling to Toyko in the middle of March to begin the regular season, the Cubs will return to Arizona afterwards and play five more games at Sloan Park before resuming regular season play.

A smattering of fans fill the stands as the Dallas Cowboys run pays at training camp practice in Oxnard, California, July 31, 2024. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer OXNARD, Calif. — He goes by the name of ...

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball set an overall spring training attendance record boosted by an increase in games, but the average attendance declined by 7.7 percent as the recession kept crowds down.

Salt River Fields at Talking Stick -- the spring-training home of the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks -- has set attendance records for this year's Cactus League games. The ballpark, near ...