Fall Classic Game 7 Captures 51M Audience Members Across the United States, Canadian and Japan Regions.

The exciting extended matchup that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a aggregate 51M watchers across the United States, Canadian, and Japan markets. Major League Baseball stated this is the highest-rated World Series Game 7 since the 1991 contest featuring the Twins and Braves.

Broadcast Ratings Details

The Saturday epic game averaged over 27 million viewers on Fox channels, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per ratings data, it was the second most-watched broadcast of the previous week.

It additionally stands as the most-watched Fall Classic matchup since the 2017 final game between the Dodgers and Astros, which drew 29.07 million. This represents a 16% improvement compared to the last finale featuring the Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million.

In the weekly rankings, the sixth game ranked 4th, Game 4 was 7th, Game 5 came in 8th, and the third game finished in thirteenth place.

International Audience Figures

In Canada, the game drew over 11 million viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports. This made it the highest-rated English-language program in Canada after the 2010 Winter Olympics.

In Japan, where the final contest started at 9 PM in the local time zone, it attracted 12 million viewers. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one run in six frames – drew 13.1M spectators, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a single network in Japan.

Overall Totals and Patterns

The entire seven-match series recorded over 15.7 million audience members on Fox, a 2% rise from the previous year’s Dodgers versus Yankees matchup. This represents the first time since 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has recorded viewership growth for two straight seasons.

Including the Game 1 broadcast on Univision, the total American average was 16.1 million. The total World Series viewership in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada.

The full playoffs on Fox and its sister channels averaged over 8 million watchers, an eight percent rise compared to the previous year and Fox’s strongest postseason performance since the 2017 season.

Major League Baseball stated that the World Series was broadcast in 203 countries and territories by 44 media partners in sixteen different languages.