🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Final Game Captures 51 Million Audience Members In the US, Canada and Japanese Regions. The nail-biting 11-inning clash where the Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 drew a aggregate 51 million watchers across the United States, Canada, and Japanese territories. MLB reported this marks the highest-rated Fall Classic finale since the 1991 contest featuring the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown Last Saturday’s memorable contest drew 27.33 million viewers on Fox networks, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s digital services. Per ratings data, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It additionally stands as the most-watched Fall Classic matchup after the 2017 edition Game 7 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Astros, which averaged 29.07 million. This marks a sixteen percent increase compared to the last Game 7 featuring the Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the weekly rankings, Game 6 placed 4th, the fourth game ranked 7th, the fifth game came in eighth, and the third game landed in 13th place. International Viewership Figures In the Canadian market, the game recorded 11.6M watchers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This made it the highest-rated English-language broadcast in Canada after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the deciding contest started at 9 p.m. local time, it attracted 12 million viewers. This followed the previous Friday’s sixth game – in which Fall Classic MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed a single run in six innings – averaged over 13 million spectators, making it the most-watched Fall Classic game on a single network in Japan. Overall Totals and Trends The full seven-game World Series recorded 15.71 million viewers on the Fox network, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This marks the initial instance since 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has recorded audience increases for two straight seasons. Counting the opening game telecast on Univision, the total US average was 16.1M. The overall World Series average in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada. The full MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09M viewers, an eight percent increase compared to last year and Fox’s strongest playoff ratings after the 2017 season. Major League Baseball announced that the Fall Classic was broadcast in 203 nations and regions by 44 broadcasting partners in sixteen different tongues.