World Series Final Game Captures 51 Million Audience Members In the US, Canada and Japanese Markets.

The nail-biting extra-inning contest where the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Blue Jays by one run attracted a aggregate over 50 million spectators across the US, Canadian, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball stated this represents the most-watched World Series Game 7 after the 1991 showdown featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves.

Television Ratings Breakdown

Last Saturday’s memorable contest averaged 27.33 million audience members on Fox Sports networks, Fox Deportes and their digital services. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the week.

It also stands as the top-rated Fall Classic matchup since the 2017 edition final game between the Dodgers and Astros, which drew 29.07 million. This represents a sixteen percent increase over the previous finale between the Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19 million viewers.

In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game ranked fourth, Game 4 was 7th, Game 5 came in 8th, and the third game landed in 13th position.

Global Viewership Numbers

In Canada, the climactic game drew 11.6M watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports. This made it the highest-rated English-language program in the country after the 2010 edition Winter Olympics.

In Japan, where the final game began at 9 p.m. local time, it averaged 12 million viewers. This followed last Friday’s Game 6 – where World Series Most Valuable Player Yamamoto allowed one run in six frames – recorded 13.1M viewers, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a single network in Japan.

Overall Totals and Patterns

The entire seven-game World Series drew 15.71M audience members on Fox, a 2% increase from the previous year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This represents the initial instance since 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has recorded viewership growth for two straight years.

Including the Game 1 telecast on Univision, the total American average was 16.1M. The overall Fall Classic viewership in the Japanese market was 9.7M and 8.1M in the Canadian market.

The complete MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 drew 8.09 million viewers, an 8% rise compared to last year and the network’s strongest playoff performance after 2017.

MLB announced that the World Series was broadcast in 203 countries and territories by forty-four media partners in 16 various languages.