🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Draws 51M Audience Members Across the United States, Canada and Japan Regions. The nail-biting extra-inning matchup that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a total 51 million viewers across the United States, Canada, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball stated this is the most-watched World Series finale since the 1991 edition contest between the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Broadcast Viewership Details Last Saturday’s memorable game averaged over 27 million viewers on Fox Sports channels, its Spanish-language channel and their streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second most-watched broadcast of the week. It additionally is the most-watched Fall Classic game after the 2017 Game 7 between the Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This marks a 16% increase over the last Game 7 between the Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19 million. In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game placed 4th, Game 4 ranked seventh, Game 5 was eighth, and the third game finished in thirteenth position. Global Viewership Figures In Canada, the climactic game averaged 11.6M viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports channel. This was the most-watched English-language broadcast in the country after the 2010 edition Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the final game began at 9 PM local time, it averaged 12 million viewers. This came after last Friday’s Game 6 – where World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – drew over 13 million spectators, making it the most-watched Fall Classic game on a sole broadcaster in the country. Series Averages and Patterns The full seven-game series recorded over 15.7 million viewers on the Fox network, a two percent increase from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This marks the initial instance after 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has seen audience increases for two consecutive years. Counting the opening game broadcast on the Univision network, the total American average was 16.1M. The total Fall Classic viewership in Japan was 9.7M and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The complete MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels drew 8.09 million viewers, an eight percent rise compared to last year and Fox’s best postseason performance since 2017. Major League Baseball reported that the World Series was broadcast in 203 countries and territories by forty-four broadcasting partners in sixteen various languages.