SF Giants are offering to pay their most loyal fans to come to September games

For the final month of the season, the San Francisco Giants are offering season ticket holders a chance to earn a bit of money on their tickets, simply by showing up to some games.

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Giants ticket reps emailed the team’s season ticket members last week, saying they “share your disappointment” in the team’s awful season on the field. But as injuries have hampered the Giants roster and led to many new faces wearing the orange and black, the email says the team is giving fans what they are calling an “added incentive” to fill the ballpark.

For any season ticket holder who attended games for this week’s three-game series against the Cardinals, or who comes out to the Sept. 21-23 games against the Twins, the Giants are giving out a credit “equal to 15% of that ticket’s value.” The team is also applying an additional 5% boost to the credit total if the Giants win, which they did in all three games against the Cardinals this week, making for a possible total credit of 20% for those games.

It’s not a direct cash payment, but rather a credit in their ticketing account. In effect, a fan who has a season ticket that costs $100 per game would receive $15 in credits just for showing up to one of these six games, or $20 for each game if the Giants win. If that fan attended all six games, they’d earn a minimum of $90 for that seat and a maximum of $120. (So far, it’d be a minimum of $105 thanks to sweeping St. Louis.) Those credited funds can then be used to bring down the total of future ticket purchases.

The email says the Giants are not allowing season ticket holders to earn the credits if they sold their tickets on secondary marketplaces like StubHub, SeatGeek or others. But they were giving credits for tickets that were forwarded directly to another account, so season ticket holders did not necessarily have to attend themselves if they found someone to go in their place.

The offer arrived just a few days after the team’s renewal deadline for the 2027 season, which the team’s website says lands on or about Aug. 28. The Giants offer a four-part payment plan that involves charging 40% of the full-season price on that date, with the remaining 60% taken in three equal installments in November, January and February. (Fans could also make one lump-sum payment, which the team also took on Aug. 28.)

In an email response to SFGATE questions, Giants spokesperson Sophie Lair Wallner said the team extended the offer to all 2026 season ticket holders, whether they chose to renew for next season or not. (The Giants declined to say how many fans have renewed for next season.) It also will help try to fill up the ballpark for midweek games that the team recognizes are “harder to attend” with school back in session.

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“This final stretch is giving a number of new players the opportunity to take the field at the Major League level – some for the very first time,” the email reads. “We want them to experience Oracle Park at its best: filled with passionate Giants fans who bring the energy to the ballpark.”

2026 started incredibly strong for the team attendance-wise, and no doubt had some in the organization hoping to crack the 3 million mark for the first time since 2018. But the gang’s horrific season on the field, plus some fans’ reaction to the team’s handling of the Pride Night controversy, has cratered attendance in the second half of the season. All nine games with fewer than 30,000 fans have happened in August and September, including a season-low 24,130 for a Wednesday day game on Aug. 26.

But there remain plenty of Giants fans who renewed their season tickets for 2027 despite those things (and the looming threat of an MLB lockout). For those loyal fans, this offer gives them a reason to keep coming to games and not let their seats sit empty.

It’s not the first move the Giants have made to try to get people in the stands. The team has slashed ticket prices for most of the second half, with some as cheap as $10 if you haven’t already purchased tickets. They even dropped some beer prices for one game at KNBR’s urging, with that Wednesday day game coming up on Sept. 23. That should be an extra sweet day in the sun for season ticket holders, too, as that’s the last game they can get credits for attending.