🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Final Game Draws Over 50 Million Viewers In the United States, Canadian and Japanese Regions. The exciting extra-inning contest that saw the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays by one run drew a combined 51 million viewers across the United States, Canada, and Japanese markets. MLB stated this represents the highest-rated World Series finale after the 1991 contest featuring the Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown Last Saturday’s epic contest averaged 27.33 million audience members on Fox channels, its Spanish-language channel and their streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It also stands as the most-watched Fall Classic game after the 2017 edition final game involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which drew over 29 million. This marks a 16% increase compared to the previous Game 7 between the Washington Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the weekly rankings, Game 6 ranked fourth, the fourth game was seventh, the fifth game came in 8th, and the third game finished in 13th place. International Viewership Figures In Canada, the game drew 11.6M watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the highest-rated English-language program in the country after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the final contest started at 9 PM in the local time zone, it drew 12M. This came after last Friday’s sixth game – where World Series Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – averaged 13.1 million viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series matchup on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Overall Averages and Patterns The entire seven-match series drew 15.71M audience members on Fox, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This represents the first time since 2015 and ‘16 that the Fall Classic has recorded audience increases for two straight seasons. Counting the Game 1 broadcast on the Univision network, the total US viewership was over 16 million. The overall World Series average in the Japanese market was 9.7M and 8.1 million in Canada. The complete playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09M viewers, an 8% increase over last year and Fox’s strongest postseason ratings since the 2017 season. Major League Baseball stated that the World Series was televised in 203 nations and regions by 44 broadcasting partners in 16 different tongues.