Report: MLB ends regular season with lowest attendance since 2003

Despite a massive spike in home runs in 2019, it appears Major League Baseball is still having an issue with dwindling attendance numbers.

The regular season ended Sunday with a total attendance of 68.49 million, the league's lowest mark since 2003, according to Eric Fisher of SportBusiness.

This season's total figure represents a 1.7% decline in comparison to 2018 and the sixth time in the last seven years that numbers have dropped at the gate, according to Fisher.

The Miami Marlins finished last with only 811,302 attendees - just 198 higher than 2018.

The Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, and Seattle Mariners also experienced noteworthy declines. Toronto posted the league's largest decrease for a second straight year, registering a loss of more than 578,000 fans to end the campaign with a total attendance of 1.72 million. Seattle experienced its lowest turnout (1.77 million) since 2013, while Baltimore (1.3 million) posted its lowest attendance total in 28 seasons at Camden Yards.

This year wasn't doom and gloom for all teams. The Los Angeles Dodgers led all clubs for a seventh consecutive season with a franchise-record mark of just under 4 million fans, while the Philadelphia Phillies saw an increase of over a half a million from the previous year.