“It’s once in a lifetime,” Robert Yanez, a Dodgers fan who lives about a three hours drive away in Texas, said of the chance to see his team play in the World Series.

Major League Baseball allowed 11,500 fans into Globe Life Park, home of the Texas Rangers, for National League Championship Series games between the Dodgers and Atlanta Braves and for World Series games.

They’re scattered around a brand new retractable roof ballpark that can accommodate more than 40,000.

Tickets for the series were put on sale in pods of four for social distancing purposes. Secondary ticket sale sites meanwhile offered tickets in pairs, with the most expensive available costing $2,500 each on one website on Tuesday.

Hand sanitizing stations are ubiquitous, along with signs urging fans to practice social distancing, wear their masks properly and keep their hands clean.

But the smell of grilling hotdogs and popcorn also wafts through the concourses a delight for hardcore fans who were denied live baseball all summer.

Rangers fan Martha Weeks of Texas said she’d been going through baseball withdrawal “big time” as spectators were banned for the pandemic-shortened season.

It meant she had to wait to get a glimpse inside her team’s new contemporary-looking home that features soaring glass windows and masses of metal and overlooks their old brick-faced ballpark across the street.

“This is my first time here since they finished it,” she said. “So far so good.”

She found the protocols in place to curb the spread of the virus “understandable.”

“Everybody’s been in shut-down for several months and we know the drill,” she said. “It would be nice to see it full of fans but it is what it is. Next year.”