🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Attracts Over 50 Million Viewers In the US, Canada and Japanese Regions. The exciting extended contest where the Los Angeles Dodgers overcome the Toronto Blue Jays by one run drew a combined 51M watchers across the US, Canadian, and Japan territories. MLB stated this represents the highest-rated Fall Classic finale since the 1991 contest between the Twins and Atlanta Braves. Broadcast Ratings Details Last Saturday’s epic game drew 27.33M audience members on Fox networks, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. According to ratings data, it was the second most-watched broadcast of the previous week. It additionally stands as the most-watched Fall Classic game after the 2017 edition final game between the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged over 29 million. This represents a 16% increase over the previous Game 7 between the Washington Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 placed 4th, the fourth game was 7th, Game 5 was 8th, and the third game finished in 13th place. International Audience Numbers In the Canadian market, the climactic game drew 11.6 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the most-watched English broadcast in Canada since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest started at 9 PM in the local time zone, it attracted 12 million viewers. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which World Series MVP Yamamoto allowed one run in six innings – recorded 13.1M viewers, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic game on a sole broadcaster in the country. Overall Averages and Trends The full seven-game series recorded 15.71 million audience members on Fox, a 2% rise from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This represents the initial instance since 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has recorded viewership increases for two consecutive years. Including the Game 1 telecast on the Univision network, the total American viewership reached 16.1M. The overall Fall Classic average in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada. The full playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 drew over 8 million watchers, an 8% increase over the previous year and Fox’s strongest playoff ratings after 2017. Major League Baseball announced that the World Series was broadcast in over 200 nations and regions by forty-four broadcasting partners in sixteen different tongues.