🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Draws Over 50 Million Audience Members In the United States, Canadian and Japan Regions. The thrilling extended clash where the Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 drew a aggregate 51M watchers across the US, Canada, and Japan markets. Major League Baseball stated this marks the most-watched Fall Classic Game 7 after the 1991 edition showdown between the Twins and Braves. Television Viewership Details Last Saturday’s epic contest averaged 27.33 million viewers on Fox networks, Fox Deportes and their streaming platforms. Per ratings data, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It additionally is the top-rated World Series matchup after the 2017 final game between the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This represents a sixteen percent increase over the previous Game 7 featuring the Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game placed fourth, Game 4 was seventh, the fifth game came in 8th, and the third game finished in 13th place. International Viewership Numbers In the Canadian market, the game drew 11.6 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This made it the highest-rated English program in Canada after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final game began at 9 p.m. in the local time zone, it drew 12M. This followed last Friday’s Game 6 – where World Series MVP Yamamoto allowed a single run in six innings – recorded 13.1M viewers, making it the most-watched Fall Classic matchup on a sole broadcaster in the country. Series Totals and Patterns The entire seven-game World Series averaged over 15.7 million viewers on Fox, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This represents the first time after 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has seen audience growth for two consecutive years. Counting the opening game broadcast on the Univision network, the total American viewership reached 16.1 million. The total Fall Classic viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The complete playoffs on Fox and its sister channels recorded 8.09 million viewers, an eight percent increase compared to last year and Fox’s strongest playoff performance since the 2017 season. MLB stated that the World Series was televised in 203 countries and territories by forty-four broadcasting partners in 16 different languages.