🔗 Share this article World Series Game 7 Draws 51 Million Viewers In the US, Canada and Japan Regions. The thrilling 11-inning matchup where the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays 5-4 drew a total 51M spectators in the US, Canadian, and Japanese markets. MLB announced this is the highest-rated Fall Classic finale since the 1991 showdown featuring the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. Broadcast Ratings Breakdown The Saturday epic contest averaged over 27 million audience members on Fox Sports channels, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated program of the previous week. It also stands as the most-watched Fall Classic game since the 2017 edition Game 7 involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which averaged over 29 million. This represents a 16% improvement compared to the previous finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game ranked 4th, the fourth game ranked 7th, Game 5 came in eighth, and the third game landed in thirteenth place. Global Viewership Figures In the Canadian market, the climactic game averaged over 11 million viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the most-watched English-language program in Canada since the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final game started at 9 p.m. in the local time zone, it drew 12 million. This came after last Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up one run in six frames – recorded 13.1 million viewers, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Series Averages and Trends The full seven-game World Series averaged 15.71 million audience members on Fox, a 2% increase from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This marks the initial instance since 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has seen viewership increases for two consecutive years. Including the Game 1 telecast on Univision, the total American average reached 16.1 million. The overall Fall Classic viewership in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada. The full MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels averaged 8.09 million viewers, an eight percent increase compared to last year and Fox’s strongest playoff performance since the 2017 season. Major League Baseball reported that the Fall Classic was televised in over 200 nations and regions by 44 media partners in sixteen different tongues.