🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Draws Over 50 Million Audience Members Across the US, Canada and Japanese Markets. The thrilling extended clash that saw the Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays by one run averaged a combined over 50 million viewers in the United States, Canada, and Japanese markets. Major League Baseball stated this is the most-watched World Series Game 7 since the 1991 showdown between the Minnesota Twins and Braves. Television Ratings Breakdown Last Saturday’s memorable game secured 27.33M audience members on Fox Sports networks, its Spanish-language channel and Fox’s digital services. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the week. It also is the top-rated World Series matchup after the 2017 edition Game 7 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which averaged 29.07M. This represents a 16% increase compared to the previous finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the weekly rankings, Game 6 ranked 4th, the fourth game ranked 7th, the fifth game was 8th, and the third game landed in thirteenth position. International Viewership Numbers In the Canadian market, the climactic game drew 11.6 million watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports. This made it the highest-rated English-language broadcast in the country since the 2010 edition Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest started at 9 p.m. in the local time zone, it attracted 12 million viewers. This followed last Friday’s sixth game – where World Series Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – averaged 13.1 million spectators, making it the most-watched Fall Classic matchup on a sole broadcaster in Japan. Series Totals and Trends The full seven-match World Series averaged 15.71M viewers on Fox, a two percent rise from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This represents the initial instance since 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has seen viewership growth for two consecutive seasons. Including the opening game telecast on Univision, the total American viewership was over 16 million. The overall World Series viewership in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1M in the Canadian market. The full playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09 million watchers, an eight percent rise over the previous year and the network’s strongest postseason performance after 2017. Major League Baseball announced that the Fall Classic was broadcast in over 200 nations and regions by 44 broadcasting partners in sixteen different tongues.