🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Captures 51 Million Viewers In the United States, Canadian and Japanese Regions. The nail-biting extended clash that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 drew a combined 51 million viewers across the US, Canadian, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball reported this marks the highest-rated Fall Classic Game 7 after the 1991 showdown featuring the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown The Saturday memorable game drew over 27 million audience members 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 is the top-rated Fall Classic matchup since the 2017 edition Game 7 between the Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This represents a sixteen percent increase compared to the last Game 7 featuring the Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19 million. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game placed fourth, the fourth game ranked 7th, Game 5 was 8th, and Game 3 landed in 13th position. Global Viewership Numbers In Canada, the game averaged 11.6M viewers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports channel. This was the most-watched English-language program in Canada since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest began at 9 PM in the local time zone, it attracted 12M. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one run in six frames – averaged 13.1 million spectators, making it the most-watched World Series matchup on a sole broadcaster in the country. Series Totals and Trends The full seven-game series recorded 15.71 million viewers on Fox, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees matchup. This marks the first time since 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has seen viewership growth for two consecutive seasons. Including the opening game broadcast on the Univision network, the complete US viewership reached over 16 million. The total Fall Classic viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1M in the Canadian market. The full playoffs on Fox and its sister channels averaged over 8 million viewers, an eight percent rise compared to the previous year and the network’s strongest postseason ratings after 2017. Major League Baseball announced that the World Series was televised in 203 nations and regions by forty-four media partners in 16 different languages.