🔗 Share this article Fall Classic Game 7 Draws 51 Million Audience Members Across the United States, Canada and Japan Regions. The exciting extra-inning contest that saw the Los Angeles Dodgers overcome the Blue Jays 5-4 drew a combined over 50 million watchers in the US, Canadian, and Japan territories. MLB announced this is the most-watched Fall Classic finale after the 1991 contest between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. Broadcast Ratings Breakdown The Saturday memorable game secured over 27 million audience members on Fox channels, its Spanish-language channel and their digital services. According to ratings data, it was the second highest-rated broadcast of the previous week. It additionally is the top-rated World Series game after the 2017 final game involving the Dodgers and Houston Astros, which drew 29.07 million. This represents a sixteen percent increase compared to the previous Game 7 between the Nationals and Astros, which drew 23.19M. In the weekly rankings, the sixth game ranked 4th, Game 4 ranked 7th, the fifth game was 8th, and the third game finished in thirteenth place. International Viewership Figures In the Canadian market, the game averaged over 11 million watchers on the Sportsnet network and the French-language TVA Sports. This made it the most-watched English-language broadcast in the country after the 2010 edition Winter Olympics. In Japan, where the deciding contest started at 9 PM local time, it attracted 12M. This came after the previous Friday’s sixth game – in which Fall Classic Most Valuable Player Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up one run in six innings – averaged over 13 million viewers, making it the highest-rated Fall Classic matchup on a single network in Japan. Overall Totals and Trends The entire seven-game World Series averaged 15.71 million audience members on Fox, a two percent increase from the previous year’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup. This marks the initial instance after 2015 and 2016 that the Fall Classic has seen viewership growth for two consecutive years. Including the opening game telecast on Univision, the complete American viewership was over 16 million. The total World Series average in the Japanese market was 9.7M and 8.1 million in the Canadian market. The full MLB Postseason on Fox and its sister channels drew over 8 million viewers, an 8% increase over the previous year and Fox’s best playoff ratings after the 2017 season. Major League Baseball announced that the Fall Classic was broadcast in 203 nations and regions by 44 broadcasting partners in sixteen different tongues.