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The exciting extra-inning clash that saw the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a aggregate over 50 million spectators across the United States, Canadian, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball stated this is the most-watched Fall Classic Game 7 since the 1991 edition showdown featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves.

Television Ratings Details

The Saturday memorable game averaged over 27 million viewers on Fox networks, Fox Deportes and their digital services. Per Nielsen, it was the second most-watched program of the previous week.

It additionally is the top-rated World Series game after the 2017 edition final game between the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew over 29 million. This marks a 16% improvement over the previous finale featuring the Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19M.

In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game ranked fourth, the fourth game was 7th, Game 5 was 8th, and the third game landed in 13th place.

International Viewership Figures

In the Canadian market, the climactic game averaged 11.6 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports. This made it the most-watched English broadcast in Canada after the 2010 Winter Olympics.

In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest started at 9 p.m. in the local time zone, it averaged 12M. This came after last Friday’s sixth game – where World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one run in six innings – averaged over 13 million viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series game on a sole broadcaster in the country.

Overall Totals and Patterns

The full seven-match series recorded 15.71 million audience members on the Fox network, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This represents the first time after 2015 and ‘16 that the Fall Classic has recorded viewership increases for two consecutive years.

Counting the Game 1 broadcast on Univision, the total American average was over 16 million. The total Fall Classic average in Japan was 9.7M and 8.1 million in the Canadian market.

The complete playoffs on Fox and its sister channels recorded 8.09 million watchers, an eight percent increase compared to the previous year and the network’s strongest playoff ratings after the 2017 season.

Major League Baseball announced that the Fall Classic was broadcast in 203 countries and territories by forty-four broadcasting partners in sixteen different tongues.