World Series Game 7 Averaged 51 Million Viewers In Us, Canada And Japan

The Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 triumph complete nan Toronto Blue Jays successful 11 innings successful Game 7 of nan World Series averaged 51m viewers mixed crossed nan United States, Canada and Japan. Major League Baseball said it is nan most-watched crippled since Game 7 of nan 1991 World Series betwixt nan Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves.

Last Saturday’s crippled averaged 27.33m connected Fox Sports, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. According to Nielsen, it was nan 2nd most-watched broadcast of past week.

It besides was nan most-watched Fall Classic crippled since 2017’s Game 7 betwixt nan Dodgers and Houston Astros averaged 29.07m. It was a 16% betterment complete nan past Game 7 betwixt nan Washington Nationals and Astros (23.19m).

Game 6 was 4th successful nan Nielsen ratings, Game 4 seventh, Game 5 eighth and Game 3 13th.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto holds nan World Series MVP trophy aft Game 7. Photograph: Ashley Landis/AP

The crippled averaged 11.6m successful Canada connected Sportsnet and nan French-language TVA Sports. It was nan most-watched, English-language broadcast since nan 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

In Japan, wherever nan deciding crippled had a 9m section commencement time, nan mean was 12m aft past Friday’s Game 6 – wherever World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed 1 tally successful six innings – averaged 13.1m, nan most-watched World Series crippled connected a azygous web successful Japan.

The full seven-game bid averaged 15.71m connected Fox, a 2% summation from past year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. It is nan first clip since 2015 and ‘16 nan World Series has had assemblage increases 2 consecutive years.

Including nan Game 1 telecast connected Univision, nan complete US mean was 16.1m. The World Series mean successful Japan was 9.7m and 8.1m successful Canada.

The complete MLB Postseason connected Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09m, an 8% summation complete past twelvemonth and Fox’s champion postseason since 2017.

MLB said nan World Series was broadcast successful 203 countries and territories by 44 media partners successful 16 languages.