🔗 Share this article World Series Game 7 Captures 51 Million Viewers In the US, Canada and Japanese Markets. The nail-biting extended contest where the Dodgers defeat the Blue Jays 5-4 drew a combined over 50 million watchers across the US, Canadian, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball reported this is the highest-rated Fall Classic finale after the 1991 contest between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. Broadcast Ratings Details The Saturday epic contest averaged 27.33 million viewers on Fox Sports networks, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. According to Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It additionally is the top-rated World Series game after the 2017 edition final game involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This marks a sixteen percent increase compared to the previous finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19 million viewers. In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game ranked fourth, Game 4 ranked seventh, Game 5 was eighth, and Game 3 finished in thirteenth place. Global Viewership Numbers In Canada, the climactic game recorded 11.6 million watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports channel. This was the highest-rated English-language program in Canada since the 2010 Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding game began at 9 PM local time, it averaged 12 million. This followed the previous Friday’s sixth game – in which World Series Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up one run in six frames – recorded over 13 million spectators, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a single network in the country. Overall Averages and Patterns The full seven-match World Series drew 15.71M viewers on the Fox network, a two percent increase from the previous year’s Dodgers versus Yankees matchup. This represents the first time since 2015 and ‘16 that the Fall Classic has seen audience increases for two consecutive years. Counting the opening game telecast on the Univision network, the complete American average was 16.1 million. The overall World Series average in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full playoffs on Fox and its sister channels recorded over 8 million viewers, an 8% increase over the previous year and the network’s strongest postseason ratings since 2017. MLB announced that the World Series was televised in over 200 nations and regions by forty-four broadcasting partners in 16 various tongues.