MIAMI — The World Baseball Classic hosted by Miami has seen a packed stadium rocking with excitement this month, before and including the United States facing Japan in the championship game Tuesday night.
The crowd and ambiance have been everything Marlins Park is not when the home team plays in its home ballpark 81 times a year. That would be the team that finished 29th of 30 in MLB attendance last season and could not even sell out opening day. A team whose ballpark, seating 37,446, was more than two-thirds empty on average.
The WBC here has been a festival, a noisy party.
