🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Attracts 51M Viewers Across the US, Canadian and Japan Markets. The thrilling extended matchup that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Blue Jays 5-4 averaged a combined 51M watchers across the US, Canadian, and Japan territories. MLB reported this is the highest-rated World Series finale after the 1991 showdown featuring the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown The Saturday memorable game drew 27.33M audience members on Fox Sports channels, Fox Deportes and their streaming platforms. According to ratings data, it was the second most-watched program of the week. It additionally stands as the top-rated World Series matchup since the 2017 Game 7 involving the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged over 29 million. This marks a sixteen percent increase over the previous Game 7 featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 ranked fourth, the fourth game was seventh, Game 5 was 8th, and Game 3 landed in 13th position. Global Audience Numbers In the Canadian market, the game recorded 11.6 million viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports channel. This was the highest-rated English-language broadcast in the country since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final contest started at 9 p.m. local time, it attracted 12 million. This followed last Friday’s sixth game – in which World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up one run in six frames – averaged over 13 million viewers, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic game on a sole broadcaster in the country. Overall Totals and Trends The entire seven-game World Series drew 15.71M viewers on Fox, a two percent increase from the previous year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This marks the initial instance after 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has seen viewership growth for two straight years. Counting the Game 1 broadcast on Univision, the total American viewership reached over 16 million. The overall Fall Classic viewership in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 drew 8.09M viewers, an eight percent increase compared to last year and the network’s best postseason performance since 2017. Major League Baseball stated that the Fall Classic was broadcast in 203 nations and regions by 44 broadcasting partners in 16 different languages.