🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Draws 51 Million Viewers In the United States, Canadian and Japan Regions. The exciting 11-inning contest where the Dodgers beat the Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a combined 51 million spectators across the US, Canadian, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball stated this marks the highest-rated World Series Game 7 after the 1991 edition showdown featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown Last Saturday’s epic contest averaged 27.33 million viewers on Fox channels, Fox Deportes and their streaming platforms. Per ratings data, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It also stands as the top-rated World Series game since the 2017 Game 7 involving the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This represents a 16% improvement compared to the last finale featuring the Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game placed 4th, Game 4 ranked seventh, the fifth game was 8th, and the third game landed in 13th place. Global Viewership Figures In Canada, the climactic game drew 11.6M viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This made it the most-watched English-language broadcast in Canada since the 2010 Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final game began at 9 p.m. local time, it attracted 12 million. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic MVP Yamamoto allowed a single run in six innings – averaged 13.1 million spectators, making it the most-watched Fall Classic game on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Series Averages and Trends The entire seven-game World Series averaged over 15.7 million viewers on the Fox network, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This marks the initial instance after 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has seen viewership increases for two straight years. Including the Game 1 telecast on the Univision network, the total US average was 16.1 million. The overall Fall Classic average in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The complete MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels averaged 8.09 million watchers, an eight percent rise compared to last year and Fox’s strongest playoff performance since 2017. MLB stated that the World Series was televised in over 200 nations and regions by forty-four media partners in 16 different languages.