🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Final Game Draws Over 50 Million Audience Members In the US, Canada and Japan Markets. The exciting extra-inning clash that saw the Dodgers beat the Blue Jays by one run attracted a total 51 million spectators in the United States, Canada, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball reported this marks the highest-rated Fall Classic Game 7 since the 1991 edition showdown featuring the Twins and Braves. Television Viewership Details Last Saturday’s memorable game secured 27.33M audience members on Fox Sports networks, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s digital services. Per ratings data, it was the second highest-rated program of the previous week. It additionally is the most-watched Fall Classic game after the 2017 edition final game involving the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew 29.07M. This represents a sixteen percent increase over the last finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 placed 4th, the fourth game was seventh, the fifth game came in 8th, and Game 3 landed in thirteenth place. International Audience Figures In Canada, the game drew 11.6M watchers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports. This made it the most-watched English-language broadcast in the country after the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding game began at 9 PM in the local time zone, it drew 12 million. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – averaged over 13 million spectators, making it the most-watched World Series game on a single network in the country. Series Averages and Patterns The full seven-game World Series averaged 15.71 million audience members on the Fox network, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This marks the initial instance after 2015 and ‘16 that the Fall Classic has recorded viewership growth for two consecutive seasons. Including the opening game telecast on Univision, the complete American average was 16.1 million. The total World Series viewership in Japan was 9.7M and 8.1M in the Canadian market. The full MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 recorded 8.09 million watchers, an 8% increase over last year and the network’s best playoff performance since 2017. MLB announced that the World Series was broadcast in over 200 nations and regions by forty-four media partners in 16 various tongues.