It’s currently 4:34 on game day. You want a ticket to the Sox game so you are about to head down to Fenway and wait in line. Today is a nice day, so you should probably wait in the Box Office line instead of scalp free, because as we all know, there won’t be many people with extra tickets down there on a night like tonight.

Yes, this is probably your best bet for getting day-of tickets. But I’ve found a new trick that’s worked for me a couple times this year already - and that is going online late in the day to search for singles and standing room tickets.

You see, the Red Sox have a pretty good idea of how many people are going to be lined up for a game, and they have a pretty good idea of how many tickets are going to end up available. Sometimes, these numbers don’t match up.

Today seems as though it was one of those days. It’s a random Monday night, against a bad team, when the Sox just plain aren’t playing well. This means that they are going to drop some tickets on the site before the line down on Landsdowne begins.

Right now, it’s about 4:30 and I’m finding a few single RF box seats available on the site that definitely were not there earlier today. My guess is that the Sox think that they will have more tickets left over than people in line, and they are dropping them online now. Or, maybe they do this for every game. But either way, before you commit to standing in line for 3 hours, check the site before leaving. The service fee just might be worth it so you can spend time drinking (water?) before the game.