🔗 Share this article World Series Game 7 Captures Over 50 Million Audience Members Across the US, Canadian and Japan Markets. The thrilling 11-inning contest that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays by one run attracted a combined 51M watchers across the US, Canadian, and Japanese territories. Major League Baseball stated this marks the highest-rated World Series Game 7 after the 1991 showdown featuring the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Broadcast Ratings Details The Saturday epic contest drew 27.33 million viewers on Fox Sports networks, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It also is the most-watched World Series game after the 2017 Game 7 between the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew 29.07M. This marks a 16% improvement over the last finale between the Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19M. In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game ranked fourth, Game 4 was seventh, the fifth game came in eighth, and Game 3 landed in thirteenth position. Global Viewership Numbers In Canada, the game averaged 11.6 million watchers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This made it the highest-rated English-language program in the country since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the final contest began at 9 PM local time, it averaged 12 million. This came after the previous Friday’s Game 6 – in which Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – recorded 13.1 million viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series matchup on a single network in Japan. Overall Averages and Trends The full seven-match World Series recorded 15.71M viewers on Fox, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees matchup. This represents the first time since 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has seen audience increases for two straight seasons. Counting the opening game broadcast on Univision, the total US viewership reached 16.1 million. The total World Series average in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The complete playoffs on Fox and its sister channels drew 8.09M viewers, an eight percent rise over last year and the network’s best postseason performance after 2017. Major League Baseball reported that the World Series was broadcast in over 200 nations and regions by forty-four media partners in sixteen different languages.