🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Captures 51 Million Audience Members Across the US, Canadian and Japanese Regions. The nail-biting extended contest where the Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 drew a total over 50 million spectators in the United States, Canada, and Japan territories. MLB announced this is the highest-rated World Series Game 7 since the 1991 edition contest featuring the Twins and Braves. Broadcast Ratings Details The Saturday epic game drew 27.33 million viewers on Fox Sports networks, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It additionally is the most-watched Fall Classic matchup after the 2017 Game 7 involving the Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This represents a 16% improvement compared to the previous Game 7 between the Washington Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19M. In the Nielsen ratings, Game 6 ranked fourth, Game 4 was 7th, the fifth game came in eighth, and Game 3 finished in 13th place. Global Audience Figures In Canada, the climactic game drew 11.6M viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports channel. This was the most-watched English-language program in the country since the 2010 Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the deciding game started at 9 PM local time, it attracted 12M. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – recorded 13.1 million viewers, making it the most-watched World Series game on a sole broadcaster in the country. Overall Totals and Trends The entire seven-match World Series recorded 15.71M audience members on Fox, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees matchup. This represents the first time after 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has recorded audience growth for two straight seasons. Counting the Game 1 telecast on Univision, the total American viewership reached 16.1M. The total World Series average in Japan was 9.7M and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels recorded over 8 million watchers, an 8% increase over the previous year and the network’s best playoff ratings after the 2017 season. MLB announced that the World Series was televised in 203 countries and territories by 44 media partners in sixteen different tongues.