🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Attracts 51M Audience Members Across the US, Canadian and Japan Regions. The nail-biting extended matchup where the Los Angeles Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays by one run attracted a total 51 million watchers across the United States, Canadian, and Japanese markets. Major League Baseball reported this marks the most-watched Fall Classic Game 7 since the 1991 showdown featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves. Broadcast Viewership Breakdown Last Saturday’s epic contest averaged over 27 million viewers on Fox Sports networks, Fox Deportes and Fox’s digital services. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the week. It additionally stands as the most-watched World Series matchup since the 2017 edition final game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This marks a sixteen percent improvement over the last finale between the Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19 million viewers. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 placed 4th, Game 4 was 7th, the fifth game came in eighth, and the third game finished in thirteenth place. International Audience Figures In the Canadian market, the game drew over 11 million viewers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports. This was the highest-rated English broadcast in Canada since the 2010 edition Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest began at 9 p.m. local time, it averaged 12 million. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – averaged 13.1M viewers, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a sole broadcaster in the country. Series Averages and Trends The full seven-game series averaged 15.71 million audience members on Fox, a two percent rise from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This marks the first time since 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has recorded audience increases for two consecutive seasons. Including the Game 1 broadcast on Univision, the complete US average was 16.1 million. The total World Series average in the Japanese market was 9.7M and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The complete MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 drew 8.09M viewers, an 8% rise over last year and Fox’s strongest postseason ratings since the 2017 season. Major League Baseball reported that the World Series was broadcast in over 200 nations and regions by 44 broadcasting partners in sixteen different tongues.