🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Captures 51M Audience Members Across the US, Canadian and Japanese Regions. The thrilling extra-inning contest that saw the Dodgers overcome the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a aggregate 51 million watchers in the United States, Canadian, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball reported this represents the highest-rated Fall Classic finale since the 1991 edition showdown between the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Broadcast Ratings Details Last Saturday’s epic game drew over 27 million audience members on Fox networks, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It also is the most-watched World Series matchup after the 2017 Game 7 involving the Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This marks a sixteen percent improvement compared to the last finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 ranked 4th, the fourth game was 7th, Game 5 came in eighth, and the third game landed in 13th place. International Audience Numbers In the Canadian market, the game recorded 11.6M watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports. This was the highest-rated English broadcast in the country since the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final game started at 9 PM local time, it averaged 12 million. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – averaged over 13 million viewers, making it the most-watched World Series matchup on a single network in the country. Overall Totals and Patterns The full seven-match series drew over 15.7 million viewers on the Fox network, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This marks the first time after 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has recorded viewership increases for two straight years. Including the opening game broadcast on the Univision network, the complete US viewership was 16.1 million. The total World Series viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 drew over 8 million watchers, an 8% rise over the previous year and Fox’s best playoff ratings since 2017. Major League Baseball stated that the Fall Classic was televised in over 200 countries and territories by forty-four broadcasting partners in sixteen different tongues.