🔗 Share this article World Series Game 7 Draws 51 Million Viewers In the US, Canadian and Japan Regions. The thrilling extra-inning matchup that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers overcome the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 drew a aggregate 51M spectators across the United States, Canada, and Japan markets. MLB stated this represents the most-watched Fall Classic Game 7 after the 1991 edition contest between the Twins and Atlanta Braves. Television Viewership Breakdown Last Saturday’s epic contest secured over 27 million audience members on Fox Sports networks, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. According to Nielsen, it was the second most-watched program of the previous week. It additionally stands as the most-watched Fall Classic matchup since the 2017 final game involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew 29.07M. This represents a 16% improvement compared to the last finale featuring the Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19M. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game ranked fourth, Game 4 was 7th, the fifth game was eighth, and the third game landed in 13th position. International Audience Figures In Canada, the game averaged 11.6M watchers on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the highest-rated English program in Canada after the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the final contest started at 9 PM local time, it drew 12M. This followed last Friday’s Game 6 – in which Fall Classic MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up a single run in six frames – recorded over 13 million viewers, making it the highest-rated World Series game on a single network in Japan. Overall Averages and Trends The entire seven-game World Series drew 15.71 million audience members on the Fox network, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This represents the initial instance after 2015 and ‘16 that the World Series has seen audience increases for two straight years. Counting the opening game broadcast on Univision, the total US viewership was over 16 million. The overall Fall Classic viewership in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1M in the Canadian market. The full MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels averaged over 8 million viewers, an eight percent increase compared to last year and the network’s strongest playoff performance after 2017. MLB announced that the World Series was broadcast in over 200 countries and territories by 44 broadcasting partners in 16 different languages.