🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Captures Over 50 Million Audience Members In the US, Canadian and Japanese Regions. The nail-biting extended matchup that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Blue Jays by one run averaged a combined 51M viewers across the US, Canada, and Japanese markets. MLB stated this represents the highest-rated Fall Classic Game 7 since the 1991 edition contest featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves. Broadcast Ratings Breakdown The Saturday memorable contest secured over 27 million viewers on Fox Sports networks, its Spanish-language channel and their streaming platforms. According to ratings data, it was the second most-watched program of the previous week. It additionally is the top-rated World Series game after the 2017 edition Game 7 involving the Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This marks a 16% increase compared to the previous finale between the Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 placed fourth, Game 4 was seventh, Game 5 came in 8th, and the third game finished in thirteenth place. International Viewership Numbers In Canada, the climactic game drew over 11 million viewers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the highest-rated English program in Canada since the 2010 Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the final contest started at 9 p.m. local time, it attracted 12 million viewers. This followed the previous Friday’s sixth game – where Fall Classic MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed a single run in six innings – drew 13.1M viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series matchup on a single network in the country. Series Totals and Trends The entire seven-match World Series averaged 15.71 million audience members on Fox, a two percent increase from the previous year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This represents the initial instance since 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has recorded audience growth for two straight years. Counting the opening game broadcast on the Univision network, the total US average reached 16.1M. The overall World Series average in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1M in the Canadian market. The full MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels drew over 8 million watchers, an 8% rise over last year and the network’s strongest postseason performance since the 2017 season. MLB stated that the World Series was broadcast in over 200 countries and territories by forty-four media partners in sixteen different languages.