🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Captures 51 Million Audience Members In the US, Canadian and Japanese Regions. The nail-biting extended clash where the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays by one run averaged a total 51 million viewers in the United States, Canada, and Japan territories. Major League Baseball announced this represents the most-watched World Series finale after the 1991 edition contest featuring the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown Last Saturday’s epic game averaged over 27 million audience members on Fox networks, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s streaming platforms. According to Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It additionally is the top-rated World Series game since the 2017 edition Game 7 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This marks a sixteen percent improvement compared to the last finale between the Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game placed 4th, Game 4 was seventh, the fifth game was 8th, and Game 3 finished in 13th place. Global Viewership Figures In the Canadian market, the game recorded 11.6M watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the highest-rated English-language program in Canada after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the deciding game started at 9 PM in the local time zone, it attracted 12 million. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where World Series Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up one run in six frames – drew 13.1M viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series matchup on a single network in the country. Series Totals and Trends The full seven-game World Series drew 15.71M viewers on the Fox network, a two percent increase from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This represents the first time after 2015 and ‘16 that the Fall Classic has seen audience increases for two consecutive seasons. Counting the opening game broadcast on Univision, the total American average reached over 16 million. The overall Fall Classic average in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada. The complete playoffs on Fox and its sister channels averaged 8.09M viewers, an eight percent rise over last year and Fox’s best 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 various tongues.