World Series Final Game Attracts Over 50 Million Audience Members Across the United States, Canada and Japanese Regions.

The thrilling extra-inning contest where the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a combined 51M spectators in the United States, Canada, and Japan markets. MLB reported this represents the highest-rated World Series Game 7 after the 1991 contest featuring the Minnesota Twins and Braves.

Television Ratings Breakdown

The Saturday epic game drew over 27 million audience members on Fox channels, its Spanish-language channel and their streaming platforms. According to ratings data, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week.

It additionally is the top-rated World Series game after the 2017 final game involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This marks a sixteen percent improvement over the previous Game 7 between the Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19M.

In the weekly rankings, the sixth game ranked fourth, Game 4 ranked seventh, the fifth game came in 8th, and the third game finished in 13th position.

Global Viewership Figures

In the Canadian market, the climactic game averaged 11.6M watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports. This made it the highest-rated English-language broadcast in Canada since the 2010 Winter Olympics.

In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest began at 9 p.m. in the local time zone, it drew 12 million viewers. This came after last Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed a single run in six innings – drew 13.1 million spectators, making it the highest-rated World Series game on a single network in the country.

Series Totals and Patterns

The full seven-game series recorded over 15.7 million audience members on the Fox network, a two percent rise from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This marks the initial instance since 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has seen viewership growth for two straight seasons.

Including the opening game telecast on the Univision network, the total American average was 16.1 million. The overall World Series average in the Japanese market was 9.7M and 8.1 million in Canada.

The complete MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels recorded 8.09 million watchers, an eight percent increase over the previous year and Fox’s best postseason ratings since 2017.

Major League Baseball reported that the World Series was televised in 203 countries and territories by 44 broadcasting partners in sixteen various languages.