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Where the Toronto Blue Jays rank in MLB attendance this season

The Toronto Blue Jays may not be sitting atop the AL East standings just yet, but if there's another category the franchise is dominating in, it's attendance.

Fresh off taking two of three games against the Miami Marlins, the Blue Jays just recorded their highest-attended three-game home series of the season.

Despite it being a weekday series in May against one of the league's worst franchises, the Blue Jays drew a staggering 126,364 fans over the three games (an average of 42,121 fans per game) at Rogers Centre.

Sure, Monday featured the Vladimir Guerrero Jr. "Born Ready" bobblehead giveaway night, and Tuesday had the wildly popular Loonie Dogs promotion. But promotions alone don't explain how more than 42,000 fans still showed up for a 1:07 p.m. weekday matinee on Wednesday.

Maybe it was the perfect weather and the dome at Rogers Centre finally being open. Or maybe fans are still feeding off last season's World Series momentum. Either way, Blue Jays fans have continued to pack the stands.

Through 30 home games this season, Toronto has already welcomed more than 1.2 million fans to Rogers Centre, averaging 40,491 spectators per game.

That currently ranks third in all of Major League Baseball and first in the American League, per ESPN.com.

The only teams ahead of Toronto are the San Diego Padres, who average roughly 41,500 fans a game in a much more temperate climate, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the back-to-back World Series winners who play at a stadium that can hold around 56,000 fans.

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The Blue Jays are one of four teams to average more than 40,000 fans per game this season. (ESPN.com)

If the Blue Jays continue drawing crowds at this pace, the team could set their highest single-season attendance total since 2016, when the franchise drew 3.39 million fans in 81 home games (an average of 41,852 fans per game).

They are on pace to welcome roughly 3.32 million fans, which would be the second-highest single-season total in franchise history.

Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro said recently that when he took the job back in 2015, he wanted to modernize the organization from top to bottom.

At the time, the Blue Jays made the playoffs and won the AL East for the first time in decades. Shapiro saw the potential and believed the organization could embrace being Canada's team, and much of his vision started with improving the fan experience.

That has included major Rogers Centre renovations, like the addition of TD Park Social, Club 328 and the Corona Rooftop Patio.

The team has also leaned heavily into promotions and fan engagement, introducing more giveaway nights, special jerseys, bobbleheads and the return of dollar hot dogs.

The result has drawn in more fans across the country.

Tune into almost any Blue Jays broadcast, and you'll spot homemade signs from fans that read something along the lines of, "I travelled from (insert random Canadian town here) to watch the Blue Jays."

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