🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Final Game Captures Over 50 Million Audience Members In the US, Canada and Japanese Markets. The thrilling extended contest that saw the Dodgers defeat the Blue Jays by one run drew a total 51 million viewers across the US, Canada, and Japan markets. MLB reported this is the most-watched World Series finale after the 1991 edition contest between the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Broadcast Viewership Breakdown The Saturday memorable game averaged over 27 million audience members on Fox Sports networks, Fox Deportes and their streaming platforms. According to ratings data, it was the second most-watched broadcast of the week. It additionally stands as the top-rated Fall Classic matchup since the 2017 Game 7 involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This represents a 16% improvement compared to the last Game 7 featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million. In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game placed 4th, the fourth game was seventh, the fifth game was 8th, and Game 3 finished in 13th place. International Audience Numbers In the Canadian market, the climactic game recorded 11.6 million watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports. This was the most-watched English broadcast in Canada since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the deciding contest began at 9 PM local time, it attracted 12M. This followed the previous Friday’s sixth game – in which Fall Classic MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – averaged 13.1 million viewers, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a single network in the country. Overall Totals and Trends The entire seven-match series recorded 15.71 million viewers on Fox, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This represents the initial instance since 2015 and ‘16 that the Fall Classic has recorded audience growth for two consecutive years. Counting the Game 1 telecast on the Univision network, the total American average was over 16 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, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09M watchers, an 8% increase over the previous year and Fox’s best postseason ratings since the 2017 season. Major League Baseball stated that the Fall Classic was televised in 203 countries and territories by forty-four broadcasting partners in sixteen different tongues.