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The thrilling extra-inning clash that saw the Dodgers overcome the Toronto Blue Jays by one run attracted a total 51M watchers in the US, Canadian, and Japanese markets. Major League Baseball reported this marks the highest-rated World Series finale after the 1991 edition showdown featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves.

Television Ratings Breakdown

Last Saturday’s epic game secured 27.33M audience members on Fox Sports networks, Fox Deportes and their digital services. Per Nielsen, it was the second most-watched broadcast of the previous week.

It additionally is the top-rated World Series game after the 2017 final game between the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew 29.07 million. This marks a sixteen percent increase over the previous Game 7 featuring the Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19 million viewers.

In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game ranked 4th, the fourth game ranked seventh, the fifth game came in eighth, and Game 3 landed in 13th position.

Global Audience Figures

In Canada, the game averaged over 11 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports channel. This was the most-watched English-language program in the country after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

In the Japanese market, where the final contest started at 9 p.m. local time, it averaged 12 million viewers. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where World Series MVP Yamamoto allowed a single run in six frames – drew 13.1 million viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series matchup on a sole broadcaster in the country.

Series Totals and Patterns

The full seven-match World Series drew 15.71M viewers on Fox, a two percent increase from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This marks the initial instance since 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has seen audience growth for two straight years.

Including the opening game broadcast on the Univision network, the complete American viewership reached 16.1 million. The overall Fall Classic average in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada.

The complete MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels recorded 8.09M viewers, an 8% rise compared to last year and Fox’s best playoff ratings since 2017.

MLB stated that the World Series was televised in over 200 countries and territories by forty-four broadcasting partners in sixteen various languages.