🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Captures Over 50 Million Viewers In the US, Canada and Japanese Regions. The exciting 11-inning contest where the Dodgers overcome the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 drew a aggregate 51 million spectators across the United States, Canadian, and Japanese markets. Major League Baseball stated this represents the highest-rated Fall Classic finale since the 1991 contest featuring the Twins and Braves. Television Viewership Details Last Saturday’s memorable game averaged over 27 million viewers on Fox Sports networks, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s digital services. According to Nielsen, it was the second most-watched program of the week. It also is the most-watched World Series game since the 2017 Game 7 involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This represents a sixteen percent increase over the last finale between the Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 placed 4th, the fourth game ranked seventh, Game 5 came in eighth, and the third game landed in 13th position. International Audience Figures In Canada, the climactic game drew 11.6 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the most-watched English-language broadcast in Canada after the 2010 edition Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the deciding contest started at 9 p.m. local time, it attracted 12 million. This came after last Friday’s sixth game – where World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed a single run in six innings – averaged over 13 million viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series game on a single network in the country. Overall Totals and Patterns The entire seven-game World Series averaged over 15.7 million audience members on Fox, a 2% increase from the previous year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This represents the first time since 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has recorded audience growth for two straight seasons. Counting the opening game broadcast on the Univision network, the complete American viewership reached over 16 million. The overall Fall Classic viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels recorded over 8 million viewers, an eight percent increase over last year and the network’s best playoff performance after the 2017 season. Major League Baseball announced that the Fall Classic was televised in 203 countries and territories by 44 media partners in 16 various languages.