🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Final Game Attracts 51 Million Audience Members Across the US, Canadian and Japanese Regions. The thrilling extended matchup where the Los Angeles Dodgers overcome the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a combined 51M watchers across the US, Canada, and Japanese markets. Major League Baseball stated this represents the most-watched World Series Game 7 after the 1991 showdown featuring the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Details The Saturday memorable game averaged 27.33 million viewers on Fox channels, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second most-watched program of the previous week. It additionally is the most-watched Fall Classic matchup since the 2017 edition Game 7 involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This marks a 16% improvement over the last Game 7 between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the weekly rankings, Game 6 ranked fourth, Game 4 was 7th, Game 5 came in 8th, and the third game landed in 13th place. Global Audience Figures In Canada, the game recorded 11.6 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports channel. This made it the most-watched English-language program in Canada after the 2010 Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final game began at 9 PM local time, it attracted 12M. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – drew 13.1M viewers, making it the most-watched Fall Classic matchup on a single network in Japan. Series Averages and Trends The entire seven-game World Series averaged 15.71 million viewers on the Fox network, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This represents the initial instance after 2015 and ‘16 that the Fall Classic has recorded audience growth for two straight years. Counting the Game 1 broadcast on Univision, the complete US average reached over 16 million. The overall Fall Classic viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1M in the Canadian market. The complete playoffs on Fox and its sister channels recorded over 8 million viewers, an 8% rise over the previous year and Fox’s best playoff ratings after the 2017 season. MLB stated that the Fall Classic was televised in 203 countries and territories by 44 media partners in sixteen different tongues.