🔗 Share this article World Series Game 7 Attracts 51M Audience Members In the United States, Canada and Japanese Markets. The exciting 11-inning matchup where the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Blue Jays by one run drew a aggregate 51M watchers in the US, Canadian, and Japanese markets. Major League Baseball announced this is the highest-rated Fall Classic finale after the 1991 contest between the Twins and Atlanta Braves. Broadcast Ratings Details The Saturday memorable contest secured 27.33 million audience members on Fox Sports channels, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated program of the week. It additionally stands as the top-rated Fall Classic game since the 2017 edition final game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew 29.07M. This represents a sixteen percent improvement over the previous finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the weekly rankings, Game 6 placed 4th, Game 4 ranked seventh, the fifth game came in eighth, and the third game landed in 13th place. International Audience Figures In Canada, the game recorded 11.6 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports channel. This was the highest-rated English broadcast in the country since the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the deciding game began at 9 PM in the local time zone, it averaged 12M. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – averaged over 13 million viewers, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a single network in the country. Series Totals and Patterns The full seven-match series averaged 15.71M viewers on the Fox network, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This represents the initial instance after 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has seen viewership growth for two straight seasons. Including the opening game broadcast on Univision, the total American viewership reached 16.1 million. The total Fall Classic average in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada. The full MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 recorded 8.09M watchers, an eight percent increase compared to the previous year and Fox’s best postseason performance since the 2017 season. MLB stated that the Fall Classic was broadcast in over 200 nations and regions by forty-four media partners in 16 various tongues.