🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Final Game Attracts 51M Audience Members In the US, Canada and Japanese Markets. The exciting extended matchup where the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays by one run averaged a aggregate over 50 million watchers across the US, Canadian, and Japanese markets. Major League Baseball announced this represents the highest-rated Fall Classic Game 7 since the 1991 edition showdown between the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Details Last Saturday’s epic game secured over 27 million viewers on Fox Sports channels, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It additionally stands as the top-rated World Series matchup since the 2017 edition Game 7 between the Dodgers and Astros, which drew 29.07 million. This marks a sixteen percent improvement over the last Game 7 between the Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19 million. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game ranked 4th, Game 4 ranked seventh, Game 5 came in 8th, and Game 3 landed in thirteenth place. International Viewership Figures In Canada, the game averaged over 11 million viewers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports. This was the highest-rated English broadcast in Canada since the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest began at 9 PM in the local time zone, it attracted 12M. This followed the previous Friday’s sixth game – in which World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – averaged 13.1 million spectators, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Series Averages and Patterns The entire seven-match World Series drew 15.71 million audience members on Fox, a 2% rise from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This represents the first time since 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has recorded viewership growth for two consecutive seasons. Counting the Game 1 telecast on the Univision network, the complete American average reached over 16 million. The total World Series viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The complete MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels averaged over 8 million viewers, an eight percent increase compared to last year and Fox’s strongest playoff ratings since 2017. MLB announced that the Fall Classic was broadcast in over 200 nations and regions by forty-four broadcasting partners in 16 different tongues.