Fall Classic Game 7 Captures 51M Viewers In the United States, Canadian and Japanese Regions.

The nail-biting extended clash where the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays 5-4 averaged a aggregate 51 million watchers in the United States, Canada, and Japan territories. MLB stated this represents the highest-rated Fall Classic finale since the 1991 contest featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves.

Television Ratings Breakdown

The Saturday memorable game secured over 27 million audience members on Fox networks, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per ratings data, it was the second most-watched broadcast of the previous week.

It also is the top-rated World Series game since the 2017 Game 7 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This represents a sixteen percent improvement compared to the previous Game 7 featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19M.

In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 placed 4th, Game 4 ranked seventh, Game 5 came in 8th, and the third game finished in thirteenth place.

Global Viewership Numbers

In the Canadian market, the game drew 11.6M viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports channel. This made it the highest-rated English broadcast in Canada after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

In Japan, where the final game began at 9 PM local time, it attracted 12 million. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed a single run in six innings – drew 13.1 million viewers, making it the most-watched World Series matchup on a sole broadcaster in the country.

Overall Averages and Patterns

The entire seven-match World Series drew over 15.7 million audience members on Fox, a two percent increase from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees matchup. This represents the initial instance since 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has recorded audience growth for two consecutive seasons.

Counting the opening game telecast on the Univision network, the total American average was 16.1M. The total Fall Classic viewership in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market.

The full playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 recorded 8.09M watchers, an 8% increase compared to the previous year and the network’s strongest playoff ratings since 2017.

Major League Baseball announced that the World Series was televised in over 200 countries and territories by forty-four media partners in 16 different tongues.