{"id":213731,"date":"2025-10-15T02:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213731\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:05:19","slug":"mlb-postseason-averaging-highest-viewership-since-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213731\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB postseason averaging highest viewership since 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is having its most-viewed postseason in the United States in 15 years.<\/p>\n

Viewership is averaging 4.33 million through the division series, according to MLB and Nielsen, a 30% increase over last year and the best since 2010.<\/p>\n

Last Friday’s 15-inning thriller between the Seattle Mariners<\/a> and Detroit Tigers<\/a> averaged 8.72 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and streaming. The Mariners’ 3-2 victory in the fifth and deciding game of the AL Division Series was the most-watched division round game on Fox since Detroit’s Game 5 win over the New York Yankees<\/a> in 2011 averaged 9.72 million.<\/p>\n

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The two AL Division Series on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 4.15 million, the most-watched division round on any network since the NL Division Series on TBS (Cubs-Cardinals and Mets-Dodgers).<\/p>\n

The series between Toronto and the Yankees, which the Blue Jays won in four games, averaged 7.65 million in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n

Viewership for all four division series in the U.S. averaged 4.17 million, its highest since 2011, and a 17% jump from last year.<\/p>\n

Blue Jays division series games in Canada averaged 3.65 million, a 10% increase from the team’s last ALDS appearance in 2016.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s first game of the AL Championship Series between Seattle and Toronto averaged 5.31 million on Fox, Fox Deportes and streaming. That is a 32% increase over last year’s Game 1 of the ALCS between Cleveland and the Yankees on TBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is having its most-viewed postseason in the United States in 15 years.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-213731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}