Fall Classic Final Game Attracts 51 Million Audience Members Across the United States, Canada and Japanese Markets.

The nail-biting extra-inning matchup where the Dodgers beat the Blue Jays 5-4 averaged a total 51M viewers in the US, Canadian, and Japanese markets. MLB reported this marks the highest-rated World Series Game 7 since the 1991 edition showdown featuring the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves.

Television Ratings Details

Last Saturday’s memorable game averaged 27.33 million viewers on Fox Sports channels, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second most-watched program of the week.

It additionally is the most-watched World Series matchup after the 2017 Game 7 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This represents a 16% increase over the last Game 7 between the Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19 million.

In the weekly rankings, Game 6 placed fourth, the fourth game was 7th, Game 5 came in eighth, and Game 3 landed in 13th place.

International Viewership Figures

In Canada, the climactic game drew 11.6 million viewers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports. This was the highest-rated English-language program in the country since the 2010 Winter Olympics.

In the Japanese market, where the final contest started at 9 PM local time, it drew 12 million viewers. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up one run in six frames – averaged over 13 million viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series game on a single network in Japan.

Overall Averages and Trends

The entire seven-match World Series recorded 15.71M viewers on Fox, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This marks the initial instance after 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has seen audience growth for two straight years.

Including the opening game broadcast on Univision, the complete American viewership was over 16 million. The overall Fall Classic viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1M in Canada.

The full playoffs on Fox and its sister channels drew over 8 million watchers, an eight percent increase over last year and Fox’s strongest postseason performance after 2017.

MLB announced that the World Series was broadcast in 203 countries and territories by forty-four media partners in sixteen different languages.