Mountain Ranges Expert: Tickets to see Nolan Arenado and St. Louis play at Coors Area will certainly be actually hot-- and also expensive-- product

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Like salt in an open wound, if you’re a Rockies fan who wants to catch another glimpse of Nolan Arenado this summer in LoDo — albeit wearing Cardinals colors — you’re going to have to pay a premium for the experience.

Arenado and the Cardinals come to town for a four-game series July 1-4, the final home series of the first half for the Rockies. Two of those games are fireworks games, and the other two are categorized as “premium” games according to 2021 season ticket pricing. (Official information on 2021 single-game ticket pricing has yet to be released.)

That means that seeing Arenado back at Coors Field this season will cost more for fans than other “standard” or “value” 2021 games. Only Colorado’s home opener April 9 against the Giants will be a more expensive ticket. The Cardinals’ series is one of 14 featuring premium games out of 26 total home series in 2021.

Factor in a large Cardinals fanbase already within this state, the popularity of fireworks games and the likelihood that attendance will be dramatically restricted due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and the result is going to be high demand for those tickets — and probably sky-high prices on the secondary market.

So, if you really want to see Arenado in a St. Louis uniform, terrorizing Colorado pitching, start saving up now.

— Kyle Newman, The Denver Post

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