🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Final Game Captures Over 50 Million Viewers Across the United States, Canadian and Japan Markets. The exciting extra-inning matchup that saw the Dodgers defeat the Blue Jays by one run attracted a combined over 50 million spectators across the United States, Canadian, and Japan territories. MLB stated this is the highest-rated World Series finale after the 1991 showdown featuring the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Details The Saturday memorable contest drew 27.33 million viewers on Fox Sports networks, Fox Deportes and their streaming platforms. Per ratings data, it was the second highest-rated program of the previous week. It additionally stands as the top-rated World Series game since the 2017 edition final game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This marks a 16% improvement compared to the last finale featuring the Nationals and Houston Astros, which attracted 23.19M. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game placed 4th, Game 4 ranked seventh, the fifth game came in eighth, and Game 3 finished in thirteenth place. Global Audience Numbers In Canada, the game drew 11.6M viewers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports. This was the most-watched English-language program in Canada after the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest began at 9 p.m. local time, it attracted 12M. This followed last Friday’s sixth game – where World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six innings – recorded 13.1M spectators, making it the highest-rated World Series game on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Series Averages and Trends The entire seven-game World Series recorded over 15.7 million viewers on the Fox network, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees matchup. This marks the initial instance after 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has seen audience growth for two straight years. Counting the Game 1 telecast on Univision, the complete US viewership reached over 16 million. The overall World Series average in the Japanese market was 9.7M and 8.1M in the Canadian market. The complete MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 recorded 8.09M viewers, an 8% rise compared to the previous year and the network’s strongest postseason performance since the 2017 season. MLB reported that the Fall Classic was televised in 203 countries and territories by forty-four media partners in sixteen different tongues.