The thrilling extra-inning clash where the Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays by one run drew a aggregate over 50 million watchers in the US, Canadian, and Japan territories. Major League Baseball stated this is the highest-rated World Series Game 7 after the 1991 edition contest featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves.
Television Ratings Breakdown
The Saturday epic game averaged 27.33 million viewers on Fox channels, Fox Deportes and their digital services. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated program of the week.
It additionally is the top-rated World Series game after the 2017 Game 7 between the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew 29.07 million. This represents a 16% increase over the last Game 7 between the Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19M.
In the weekly rankings, the sixth game placed fourth, the fourth game ranked seventh, the fifth game was eighth, and Game 3 finished in thirteenth position.
Global Audience Figures
In the Canadian market, the climactic game averaged 11.6M viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports. This was the highest-rated English-language broadcast in Canada since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
In the Japanese market, where the deciding game began at 9 PM in the local time zone, it drew 12 million. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which World Series MVP Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – recorded over 13 million viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series matchup on a single network in the country.
Overall Totals and Patterns
The entire seven-match series recorded 15.71M audience members on Fox, a two percent increase from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This marks the first time since 2015 and ‘16 that the Fall Classic has seen audience increases for two consecutive years.
Counting the Game 1 broadcast on the Univision network, the complete US viewership was over 16 million. The total World Series viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market.
The complete playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09M viewers, an 8% rise compared to the previous year and Fox’s strongest postseason performance since 2017.
Major League Baseball stated that the World Series was televised in 203 countries and territories by 44 media partners in 16 different tongues.
