🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Attracts 51 Million Viewers In the United States, Canada and Japan Markets. The nail-biting extra-inning contest where the Los Angeles Dodgers overcome the Toronto Blue Jays by one run attracted a aggregate over 50 million spectators across the US, Canadian, and Japanese territories. MLB announced this is the most-watched Fall Classic Game 7 after the 1991 edition contest between the Twins and Braves. Television Viewership Details The Saturday epic contest secured 27.33M viewers on Fox Sports channels, its Spanish-language channel and their streaming platforms. Per Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated program of the previous week. It additionally stands as the most-watched Fall Classic game since the 2017 edition Game 7 between the Dodgers and Astros, which drew 29.07M. This represents a 16% improvement compared to the previous Game 7 between the Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the Nielsen ratings, the sixth game placed 4th, the fourth game ranked seventh, Game 5 came in eighth, and the third game finished in 13th position. Global Audience Figures In the Canadian market, the climactic game recorded 11.6M watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports channel. This was the most-watched English broadcast in Canada after the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding game began at 9 PM local time, it attracted 12 million. This came after last Friday’s Game 6 – where Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yamamoto gave up one run in six frames – recorded over 13 million spectators, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a sole broadcaster in the country. Overall Totals and Patterns The full seven-game World Series drew 15.71 million audience members on the Fox network, a two percent increase from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This marks the first time after 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has seen audience increases for two straight years. Counting the Game 1 broadcast on the Univision network, the total American average was 16.1M. The total Fall Classic average in the Japanese market was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels drew 8.09 million watchers, an eight percent increase compared to last year and the network’s strongest playoff ratings after the 2017 season. Major League Baseball announced that the Fall Classic was broadcast in over 200 nations and regions by 44 media partners in sixteen different languages.