
The Twins are setting all kinds of records on the field this season.
Now, with the weather finally cooperating, some pretty impressive numbers are starting to pile up at the box office.
Sunday's attendance at Target Field was 39,913, the largest since the 2016 home opener.
It was the second straight sellout at the downtown Minneapolis ballpark, the first time that's happened since 2015, when consecutive games against the Chicago Cubs filled the place with more than 40,000 fans.
The sellout streak was broken Monday, when 29,167 braved rainy conditions to watch the Twins fall to the Brewers.
The Twins have passed the half-million mark in home attendance so far this season, putting them 19th among the 30 major league baseball teams, following a slow start at the gate with April and early May gametime temperatures in the 40's with some cold rain and a few snowflakes added to the un-springlike mix.
All this comes after years of steady attendance declines at Target Field, a dip that's been common over past decade for many major league teams.
The Twins drew a franchise record 3,223,640 in 2010, the ballpark's first season.
Since then, attendance has declined every year except one.
Last season, the 1,959,197 that came to Target Field represented the lowest season attendance in its history.
This year, with all the bad weather, the Twins offered five-dollar "get-in" tickets for most games in the month of May.
That helped beef up attendance figures in the previous homestand, with all seven games against the Tigers and Angels drawing at least 20,000 fans in weather that ranged from one rainout to a sun-splashed midweek afternoon finale that attracted only the second crowd of the season that surpassed 30,000... the other coming on Opening Day.
A 6-1 road trip for a team hitting homers in bunches, plus sunny skies and temperatures pushing into the 70's, prompted many fans to make game-day decisions to see what's what in person, resulting in walk-up sales for the past two games totaling nearly 10,000 fans.
There is a downside, one that the Twins will gladly take.
Because so many fans like to arrive late, there's a bottleneck at the gates where only so many ticket-takers are working to get people into the ballpark and to their seats.