🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Draws Over 50 Million Viewers In the United States, Canada and Japan Markets. The exciting 11-inning contest that saw the Dodgers defeat the Blue Jays by one run attracted a aggregate 51M watchers across the US, Canada, and Japan territories. MLB announced this is the most-watched World Series Game 7 since the 1991 showdown featuring the Twins and Braves. Broadcast Ratings Details The Saturday epic contest secured 27.33M viewers on Fox networks, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. According to Nielsen, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the week. It also stands as the top-rated World Series game after the 2017 final game between the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew over 29 million. This represents a 16% increase over the last finale featuring the Washington Nationals and Astros, which attracted 23.19 million viewers. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game placed 4th, the fourth game was 7th, Game 5 was 8th, and Game 3 landed in thirteenth place. International Audience Numbers In Canada, the climactic game averaged 11.6M watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French TVA Sports. This made it the highest-rated English program in Canada since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. In the Japanese market, where the deciding contest began at 9 p.m. local time, it averaged 12 million viewers. This came after last Friday’s Game 6 – in which World Series MVP Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – drew 13.1M viewers, making it the most-watched Fall Classic matchup on a sole broadcaster in the country. Series Totals and Trends The entire seven-game series averaged 15.71 million viewers on Fox, a 2% rise from last year’s Dodgers versus Yankees series. This marks the initial instance since 2015 and 2016 that the World Series has recorded viewership increases for two straight years. Counting the Game 1 broadcast on the Univision network, the total US viewership reached over 16 million. The total Fall Classic average in Japan was 9.7M and 8.1M in Canada. The complete playoffs on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09 million viewers, an eight percent increase compared to last year and Fox’s best playoff performance after the 2017 season. MLB stated that the Fall Classic was televised in 203 countries and territories by forty-four broadcasting partners in sixteen various languages.