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The nail-biting 11-inning clash where the Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 attracted a aggregate 51M watchers in the United States, Canada, and Japanese markets. MLB announced this marks the highest-rated Fall Classic finale after the 1991 edition showdown featuring the Twins and Braves.

Broadcast Viewership Details

The Saturday epic contest averaged 27.33M audience members on Fox networks, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. Per ratings data, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the week.

It additionally stands as the most-watched World Series game after the 2017 final game involving the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This represents a sixteen percent increase over the previous Game 7 featuring the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, which drew 23.19 million.

In the weekly rankings, Game 6 placed 4th, the fourth game was seventh, Game 5 was eighth, and Game 3 finished in 13th place.

Global Viewership Figures

In the Canadian market, the climactic game recorded over 11 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French TVA Sports channel. This made it the most-watched English broadcast in the country since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest began at 9 PM local time, it attracted 12 million. This followed the previous Friday’s sixth game – in which World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six frames – averaged over 13 million viewers, making it the most-watched World Series game on a single network in the country.

Series Totals and Trends

The entire seven-game series averaged over 15.7 million audience members on the Fox network, a 2% increase from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. This represents the initial instance since 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has seen viewership increases for two consecutive seasons.

Counting the opening game broadcast on the Univision network, the complete US viewership was 16.1 million. The overall World Series average in Japan was 9.7M and 8.1 million in the Canadian market.

The complete playoffs on Fox and its sister channels recorded 8.09 million watchers, an eight percent increase compared to last year and Fox’s strongest postseason performance since 2017.

Major League Baseball announced that the World Series was televised in over 200 countries and territories by 44 media partners in sixteen various tongues.