🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Draws 51 Million Audience Members In the US, Canadian and Japanese Regions. The nail-biting extra-inning contest where the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays by one run attracted a combined 51 million watchers across the United States, Canadian, and Japan markets. MLB stated this marks the highest-rated World Series Game 7 since the 1991 contest between the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown The Saturday epic contest secured 27.33M audience members on Fox networks, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s digital services. Per ratings data, it was the second most-watched program of the previous week. It additionally is the top-rated World Series matchup after the 2017 Game 7 involving the Dodgers and Astros, which drew 29.07 million. This represents a sixteen percent improvement compared to the last finale between the Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19 million. In the weekly rankings, Game 6 placed fourth, Game 4 ranked seventh, the fifth game was eighth, and the third game landed in thirteenth position. International Viewership Figures In Canada, the game averaged over 11 million viewers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports. This was the highest-rated English program in Canada after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the final contest started at 9 PM local time, it averaged 12 million. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – recorded over 13 million spectators, making it the most-watched Fall Classic matchup on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Series Averages and Trends The entire seven-match series averaged 15.71M audience members on the Fox network, a two percent increase from the previous year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This marks the first time after 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has recorded audience growth for two straight seasons. Counting the Game 1 broadcast on the Univision network, the complete US viewership reached over 16 million. The overall Fall Classic viewership in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada. The complete MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels drew over 8 million viewers, an 8% rise over the previous year and Fox’s strongest playoff performance since the 2017 season. Major League Baseball reported that the World Series was broadcast in 203 nations and regions by 44 media partners in sixteen various languages.