[Apr/May ’26 added!] Baseball fans: Capital One once again has great seats for 5,000 miles each

Update 3/5/26: Tickets are now available for April and May games. Get on ’em if you want ’em!

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 what this post is mostly about, but when those aren’t 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 cardholders 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 for every game, 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 per ticket in the cardholder-exclusives section. These are seats I wouldn’t otherwise consider buying, but at 5,000 miles per seat, I enjoyed the great view shown above (and the Delta Club, where the 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 a poorer value—you’re looking for 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 I bought tickets again this time around because it’s a fun experience at a reasonable price.

How to find the good Capital One Cardholder Exclusive tickets

Capital One can be finicky 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 cardholder-exclusive seats in the Delta Club 11 section, right near the field, listed at 5,000 miles per seat, alongside seats in the 400’s and 500’s sections. You’ll only get 0.6c per point toward seats, but Capital One lists those Delta Club 11 seats at $40 per seat, well below the going price!

You’ll kind of need to know what you’re looking for: 2 or 4 seats for 5,000 miles per seat, close to the field. Note that these are initially available for every game, but there are only four seats per game — expect most of the desirable games to get snatched up quickly. In most parks, the seats cost just 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 charge a small fee of a couple of dollars, which I assume is a 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 with all 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, 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 many add-on fees at checkout. The seats shown here are not cardholder-exclusive.

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 mileage amounts or additional fees, you’re not looking at the cardholder-exclusive seats.

Also, if you pick a team that isn’t in your local area, you’ll have to type 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 on any fees at checkout — 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 be both a great use of miles and a great perk for cardholders.

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