After Small Sales Decline This Season, High Prices for Yankees Playoff Tickets The Mets may have lost five out of six games to the Yankees this year, but they did beat their crosstown rivals in one perverse way: They endured a smaller decline at the turnstiles. The Mets sold 109,793 fewer fans this year at Citi Field, while the Yankees saw a decline of 111,274. The Yankees, though, drew far larger crowds, selling 3,542,406 tickets, the second most in the league after the Phillies. As a result, tickets sales declined just 3 percent, compared to a 4.7 percent decline for the Mets. Whatever the reasons for their decline in ticket sales - the economy, lack of interest, poor weather - the Yankees are playing when it matters most: In the post season. The average price for a ticket to see them play in the division series at Yankee Stadium is $226.45, according to TiqIQ, a ticket research company. That's 42 percent higher than the average price for first-round tickets last season, when the Yankees played games one, two and five against the Tigers, but 14 percent less than the average price in 2010, when the Yankees faced the Twins in a deciding game three in the Bronx.