Update 7/23/25: Tickets are now available for August and September games. Many readers have reported errors while trying to use consumer miles-earning cards to buy. My wife was able to buy with her Spark Cash rewards ($40 per ticket), but not with miles from her Venture or Venture X cards. YMMV.
Update 5/15/25: Tickets are now available for June and July games! Book them now, as the most in-demand games will be gone soon.
Remember — there are only 4 cardholder exclusive seats for each game. Many of the highly desirable games will go quickly and then the other tickets are a very poor value. You have to know what you’re looking for. See this example from Citi Field where tickets are listed as “$40” in a section where the adjacent sections are going for $100+ per ticket. When you click that section, you’ll see that these are Capital One Cardholder Exclusive tickets available for 5,000 miles each. For reference, all other seats in this section cost more than 20,000 miles per seat in the example below.
If you click on a section without Cardholder Exclusive tickets, it will say “Powered by VividSeats”. Those tickets are a bad value!
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One of the best uses of Capital One miles is Capital One Cardholder Exclusives Major League Baseball tickets. I put that in bold because only the cardholder exclusives are a good deal. There are only 4 Cardholder Exclusive seats for each Major League Baseball game, but those four seats are typically within 5-15 rows of the field in highly desirable sections (in many cases they are club level sections) and they only cost 5,000 miles or $40 in Capital One cash back per seat. This post explains what these are and where to find them. See this post for some examples from my experience at a New York Mets game and some reader input.
Note: Some readers have been a bit confused because Capital One sells cardholder exclusive tickets, which are a great deal and are what this post is mostly about, but when they don’t have the cardholder exclusive tickets available they also sell general secondhand market tickets (which are typically an awful deal). See the heading below “How to find the good Capital One cardholder exclusive tickets” for more.
The Deal
- Capital One Entertainment is offering cardholder exclusive tickets to baseball games in April and May, with four seats available at 5,000 miles per seat (in excellent locations) for most of the games I checked
- Direct link to Capital One Entertainment
Quick Thoughts
Capital One sells sporting event tickets through a partnership with VividSeats. Most tickets yield an awful value of 0.6c per mile. However, Capital One has 4 Cardholder Exclusive tickets to every game that are typically a great value. They also sell seats powered by VividSeats that are an awful value. See the next section of this post for how to tell the difference.
The first game I looked up in New York when these seats launched was about $200 a ticket in the cardholder exclusives section. These are seats that I wouldn’t otherwise consider buying, but at 5,000 miles a seat, I enjoyed the great view shown above (and the Delta Club, where concessions had much shorter lines. We even ran into Mr. Met in the club!).
Cardholder Exclusive Seats are located very close to the field, though it varies a bit from one park to another. For example, Philadelphia has seats 5 rows behind the visiting team’s dugout, which my sister-in-law loved for a Phillies/Mets game as she got to sit right behind her beloved Mets.
Again, Capital One has many publicly-available VividSeats options at poorer value — you’re looking for the cardholder exclusive seats.
There were no additional fees for any of the tickets I’ve bought (in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Kansas City) beyond the 10K miles for two tickets or 20K for four tickets, though some parks have a couple of dollars in tax that must be paid with your card.
The tickets at Citi Field (where the Mets play) are in the Delta Club section, so you get access to better concessions and the seats are more padded. That type of thing will vary by park.
Personally, I’m not a huge baseball fan, but I enjoy cool experiences and I wouldn’t be very likely to buy tickets so close to the field otherwise, so bought tickets again this time around because it’s a fun experience for a reasonable price.
How to find the good Capital One Cardholder Exclusive tickets
Capital One can be finnicky about how they display the Cardholder Exclusive seats. Sometimes, when cardholder exclusive seats are available, you will only see those tickets available for sale.
Other times, the cardholder exclusives might be mixed in among nosebleed seats that yield terrible value. For instance, see this example from a New York Mets game — you’ll find the cardholder exclusive seats, which are in the Delta Club 11 section right near the field, for 5,000 miles per seat listed alongside seats in the 400’s and 500’s sections. You’ll only get 0.6c per point in value toward seats, but Capital One has those Delta Club 11 seats listed at a value of $40 per seat, which is well below the going price for those seats!
You’ll kind of need to know what you’re looking for — 2 or 4 seats for 5,000 miles per seat that are close to the field. Note that these are initially available for every game, but there are only four seats for each game — expect most of the desirable games to get snatched up quickly. In most parks, the seats cost just the 5,000 miles each with no cash outlay at all (I’ve bought tickets for games at both Yankee Stadium and Citi Field in New York as well as tickets to games in Boston, Philadelphia, and Kansas City and only paid 5,000 miles each in those cases). Some parks seem to have a small fee of a couple of dollars, which I assume is some sort of local tax.
To find tickets, just log in to Capital One Experiences and you’ll find MLB Single Game Tickets under the cardholder exclusives.
This link should take you directly to MLB tickets.
As shown above, Capital One is now mixing the cardholder exclusive seats in with all of the VividSeats tickets. That makes it kind of a pain to find the good seats.
Here’s the simple way to tell the difference: check the sections right next to the field. You’re looking for one that has tickets “From $40” (typically seats in these sections go over over $100 per seat or in cities like New York they would be over $200 per seat). Those cardholder exclusive seats will cost 5,000 miles each and you can only buy in sets of 2 or 4. When you select those seats, you’ll see that they are clearly marked “Cardholder Exclusive Tickets by Capital One” as shown here:
If you select a set of tickets that says “Tickets Powered by VividSeats”, those are not the cardholder exclusives and are offered at poor value! See this example from the next section over from the one shown above — tickets start at $103 and are available for 13,000 miles and are “powered by VividSeats”. Those aren’t the exclusives.
The “value” appears to be the same because Capital One is saying that the cardholder exclusives are “worth” $40 each, but in reality seats in that section would likely sell for north of $100 per ticket just like the nearby sections — Capital One is simply listing a below-face-value price for their cardholder exclusive seats.
When you click through on those seats, you’ll see they are Capital One cardholder exclusives.
The cardholder exclusive tickets have no additional fees — they are 5K miles per ticket, period. I bought tickets to both a Yankees game and a Phillies game (against the Mets) and paid 10K for two tickets to each game.
Again, Capital One also lists tickets in many different sections, those are not cardholder exclusives but are rather a selection of seats powered by VividSeats. The non-exclusive VividSeats tickets are not a good deal. You’ll only get 0.8c per point toward those tickets and there are a lot of add-on fees during the checkout process. Seats shown here are not cardholder exclusives.
Kind of interesting and weird is that Capital One labels the good “exclusive” seats as though they cost $40 even though the exclusives are near the field in otherwise much more expensive sections. Don’t be confused by this — the cardholder exclusives are labeled as $40 tickets, but you can’t actually buy them for $40.
In fact, when you’ve got the cardholder exclusive tickets, you don’t even get the option to use money to buy the seats — you couldn’t buy them for $40 each if you wanted to, it’s 5K miles per ticket during checkout with no option to use fewer miles and no additional fees (and you must buy either 2 or 4 tickets). If you are seeing different numbers of miles or additional fees, you’re not looking at the cardholder exclusive seats.
Also of note is that if you pick a team that isn’t in your local area, you’ll have to type in the city where you want to see them in the “Near” box. For instance, since I’m in New York State, it searched for Chicago Cubs tickets in New York City. I had to type in Chicago, IL to see games at Wrigley Field.
I was really happy to see that Capital One isn’t tacking any fees on during the checkout process — it’s literally just 5,000 miles per ticket (you have to buy tickets in blocks of 2).
Overall, it’s great to see Capital One offer interesting exclusives to cardholders. While baseball isn’t necessarily a direct path to my heart, I could see tickets to certain sold-out events or in great locations like these baseball tickets being an exciting cardholder perk. I thought the Final Four tickets were a cool idea. Offering something similar for other major events could become both a great use of miles and a great perk of being a cardholder.
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Anyone else suddenly not receiving notifications about new comments but for this post only? It started midday yesterday out of the blue, and it is not because of a spam filter. I subscribe to a different FM post, and I start receiving comment notifications for that post instantly.
Yeah, we think there’s a certain comment velocity at which email notifications of new comments seem to break (we stop getting them, too — the notifications stop for all posts when it happens, not just this one). It typically only happens when it’s a post like this where there’s a sudden influx of a ton of comments in a short period of time (like a whole bunch within just a few minutes). I did receive your comment via email though, so I think all is back to normal.
Can I gift the tickets to my son or am I required to attend the game?
You can transfer them to someone else, but the main resale platforms (like StubHub) won’t allow you to list them for sale.
I’ve gifted most of the tickets I’ve gotten without issue. Do note that the delivery window varies by park, but typically you won’t receive the tickets until somewhere between 1-7 days before the game.
I did not receive a confirmation email, no tickets are listed on my upcoming events, but points were deducted from my account. Did anyone receive confirmation emails? Are the tickets you got listed on your account?
Yes, got confirmation emails. You wouldn’t have tickets yet – those typically don’t come until the week of the game.
I mean they aren’t listed on upcoming events on my Cap1 entertainment website, not talking about MLB ballpark.
We’re visitng Atlanta from ALB in September, and for some reason I cant figure out why Braves tickets are so expensive. This was perfect timing and we were able to snag 2 tickets. Thanks for always posting this update!
Grabbed a couple of Brewers tickets for next month, thanks! Their Brewers seats are row 5 behind the plate and competition is slim, around half the dates are still available this evening, definitely going to keep an eye out for these going forward. I’m also going to switch my Capital One Offers cashout location from Venture X miles to Quicksilver rewards cash, could have saved myself 2k miles on these if I’d been doing that before.
No dodgers tickets available, even non discounted? Just like the last release a couple months ago I check every game at dodgers stadium and it says sorry, no tickets available… Not even full price miles tickets. I clicked for a game in Cincinnati and had hundreds of tickets for points, ( not the discount). Why can’t I see tickets at popular stadiums? I also checked for tickets when dodgers in Tampa and nothing
If you check later the full price tickets will appear, but the cents per mile value will not be good.
The 5k miles seats from Cap One are an amazing deal, but only 4 seats are available per game. For popular teams like the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, etc. you need to spend a lot of time checking around the release date. The whole country is chasing those 4 seats per game.
Same error here. Can’t see a single ticket for the Cubs and it gives me the same error message
The Braves are slap terrible this year, enough to where I probably wouldn’t spend money on ’em, but my daughter’s been on me to go to a game all summer. As we were already driving down to Atlanta for Clemson-GA Tech, thanks to this recurring post, I scooped the four for Fri night vs the Astros to make it a truly exceptional sports weekend!
Truly and with all sincerity, thank you for all the work y’all put in and the resources your team shares. I have gotten so much more value out of my points and miles because of FM. This site is an absolute asset to my family and me.
Also – no errors on my end at purchase time (2:05 EST)
Every time I’ve seen this post from Nick I’ve looked for Giants tickets. And either I don’t know how to search or this is a HUGE waste of time.
You need to subscribe to comments and also check multiple times a day around the time they will likely get released (based on previous years).
And then get screwed over by Cap1’s shitty IT rendering this a complete waste of time.
Was able to get tickets to two games this morning, 15 mins after the first post notified us.
No Giants home games are available at the moment. I did score some home game tickets a couple years ago but unfortunately wasn’t able to make the game.
Specifically for Oracle Park, the Cap 1 tickets do not get listed in the correct section. They show up in Lower Box 124 when the tickets actually are for Field Club 124. All the tickets for Aug/Sep do seem to be gone by now (even Tues night games) but I would keep that in mind for next season since it’s been that way since at least the beginning of last year.
It hurt to spend 20k miles instead of $160 because I was short cashback but at least I got them this time.
With the utmost sincerity, F#$% Cap1. Not 1 Mets ticket left
I was late to the ticket release this round but still scored 4 seats at Fenway Park for a Saturday game. Initially I also got the VX error, but after logging out and back in the tickets were available for purchase.
The issue was fixed! go go go go!
Are you seeing next year opening day tix on sale?
I saw it for the Phillies, but I didn’t click on the link to know more.
I got the error multiple times as well on both mine and P2’s account. I was FINALLY able to get tickets for miles! Hopefully, it’s fixed now for everyone!
Yep working for me now
Yep, it’s fixed now. I got the tickets I want!
Anyone get Cubs tix at Wrigley? Or Reds?
Got Cubs, yes.
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