NEW YORK \u2014 It may have been the best World Series of all-time, and now it\u2019s the SBA winner of Sports Event of the Year for 2025.<\/p>\n
The seven-game Fall Classic between the Dodgers and Blue Jays was absolutely scintillating, delivering on both the baseball and business sides for MLB.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the most important thing was the international overtone to the event,\u201d MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said. \u201cCanada and the U.S. against each other in the World Series made it special, at a point in time when we\u2019re trying to grow our business internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having international superstars like Shohei Othani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. certainly helped as well, especially with ratings in Japan. Game 7 averaged 51 million views across the US, Canada and Japan, the highest mark for any MLB game in 34 years.<\/p>\n
Overall, the television viewership audience skewed younger, with an 11% increase in the 17-and-younger demographic. All seven games were sellouts, with the total attendance (335,764) serving as a 32% increase over the 2024 World Series (five games) and the largest total attendance for a Fall Classic since 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are enjoying a lot of momentum, and I think it\u2019s due to the fact that we listen to our fans,\u201d Manfred said. \u201cWe\u2019ve made some changes in the game that I think were really important, and we\u2019ve been blessed with a great influx of young talent and a lot of it showed up and played in the World Series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 It may have been the best World Series of all-time, and now it\u2019s the SBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85,329924],"class_list":["post-684379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-sports-business-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}