🔗 Share this article World Series Game 7 Captures 51M Audience Members In the United States, Canada and Japan Markets. The nail-biting extended clash where the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a total 51 million watchers across the United States, Canada, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball stated this represents the highest-rated World Series Game 7 since the 1991 showdown featuring the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown The Saturday epic contest averaged 27.33M audience members on Fox networks, Fox Deportes and Fox’s digital services. According to Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the week. It additionally is the top-rated World Series game after the 2017 Game 7 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew 29.07M. This marks a sixteen percent improvement over the previous Game 7 featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19 million. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game ranked 4th, Game 4 was 7th, Game 5 came in eighth, and Game 3 finished in thirteenth place. International Viewership Numbers In the Canadian market, the climactic game drew 11.6M viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports. This made it the most-watched English broadcast in Canada since the 2010 Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the final contest began at 9 PM in the local time zone, it averaged 12M. 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 viewers, making it the most-watched World Series matchup on a single network in Japan. Series Averages and Patterns The entire seven-match series drew 15.71 million audience members on the Fox network, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This represents the first time after 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has recorded audience increases for two consecutive seasons. Counting the Game 1 broadcast on the Univision network, the complete American viewership was 16.1 million. The overall World Series viewership in Japan was 9.7M and 8.1 million in Canada. The full playoffs on Fox and its sister channels recorded 8.09 million watchers, an 8% rise over the previous year and Fox’s best postseason ratings after 2017. MLB stated that the World Series was televised in 203 nations and regions by forty-four broadcasting partners in sixteen different languages.