🔗 Share this article World Series Final Game Draws 51 Million Viewers In the United States, Canada and Japan Markets. The nail-biting 11-inning contest that saw the Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays by one run drew a combined 51M spectators in the United States, Canadian, and Japan markets. Major League Baseball stated this is the most-watched World Series finale after the 1991 contest featuring the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Broadcast Viewership Details The Saturday memorable contest drew over 27 million viewers on Fox channels, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. According to Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the week. It additionally is the top-rated Fall Classic matchup after the 2017 final game between the Dodgers and Astros, which averaged over 29 million. This marks a 16% improvement compared to the last finale featuring the Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game ranked fourth, the fourth game was 7th, Game 5 came in 8th, and the third game finished in 13th place. International Viewership Numbers In the Canadian market, the climactic game recorded over 11 million viewers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports. This was the most-watched English-language program in the country after the 2010 Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding game began at 9 p.m. local time, it attracted 12 million. This followed the previous Friday’s Game 6 – where World Series Most Valuable Player Yamamoto allowed one run in six frames – recorded 13.1M viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series game on a single network in Japan. Series Averages and Trends The entire seven-game World Series averaged 15.71M audience members on the Fox network, a 2% rise from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This represents the first time since 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has recorded audience growth for two straight seasons. Counting the Game 1 telecast on the Univision network, the complete American average was over 16 million. The overall Fall Classic viewership in the Japanese market was 9.7M and 8.1M in the Canadian market. The complete playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 recorded 8.09 million viewers, an eight percent increase over the previous year and the network’s strongest postseason performance after the 2017 season. Major League Baseball announced that the Fall Classic was broadcast in 203 countries and territories by 44 broadcasting partners in 16 various languages.