🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Captures 51 Million Audience Members In the United States, Canada and Japanese Regions. The thrilling extended clash where the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays by one run attracted a total over 50 million spectators across the United States, Canada, and Japanese markets. Major League Baseball announced this marks the most-watched Fall Classic finale since the 1991 contest featuring the Twins and Atlanta Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown Last Saturday’s epic contest drew 27.33M viewers on Fox channels, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second most-watched program of the previous week. It also stands as the top-rated Fall Classic matchup since the 2017 edition final game involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew 29.07M. This marks a 16% improvement over the previous finale featuring the Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game ranked fourth, the fourth game was 7th, the fifth game came in eighth, and Game 3 finished in thirteenth place. Global Viewership Figures In the Canadian market, the climactic game drew over 11 million watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the most-watched English program in the country after the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final game started at 9 p.m. in the local time zone, it drew 12M. This came after last Friday’s sixth game – where World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one run in six frames – recorded 13.1M spectators, making it the highest-rated World Series game on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Overall Totals and Trends The full seven-game series averaged 15.71 million audience members on Fox, a two percent increase from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This marks the first time after 2015 and ‘16 that the Fall Classic has recorded audience growth for two consecutive years. Including the Game 1 telecast on the Univision network, the total US viewership reached 16.1M. The total Fall Classic viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada. The full MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged over 8 million viewers, an 8% rise over the previous year and the network’s strongest postseason performance since the 2017 season. MLB stated that the World Series was televised in 203 nations and regions by 44 media partners in sixteen different languages.