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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> in 11 innings in Game 7 of the World Series averaged 51 million viewers combined across the United States, Canada and Japan. Major League Baseball said it is the most-watched game since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday’s game averaged 27.33 million on Fox Sports, Fox Deportes and Fox’s streaming platforms. According to Nielsen, it was the second most-watched broadcast of last week.<\/p>\n

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It also was the most-watched Fall Classic game since 2017’s Game 7 between the Dodgers and Houston Astros averaged 29.07 million. It was a 16% improvement over the last Game 7 between the Washington Nationals and Astros (23.19 million).<\/p>\n

Game 6 was fourth in the Nielsen ratings, Game 4 seventh, Game 5 eighth and Game 3 13th.<\/p>\n

The game averaged 11.6 million in Canada on Sportsnet and the French-language TVA Sports. It was the most-watched, English-language broadcast since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

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In Japan, where the deciding game had a 9 a.m. local start time, the average was 12 million after last Friday’s Game 6<\/a> \u2014 where World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed one run in six innings \u2014 averaged 13.1 million, the most-watched World Series game on a single network in Japan.<\/p>\n

The entire seven-game series averaged 15.71 million on Fox, a 2% increase from last year’s Dodgers-Yankees series. It is the first time since 2015 and ’16 the World Series has had audience increases two straight years.<\/p>\n

Including the Game 1 telecast on Univision, the complete U.S. average was 16.1 million. The World Series average in Japan was 9.7 million and 8.1 million in Canada.<\/p>\n

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The complete MLB Postseason on Fox, FS1 and FS2 averaged 8.09 million, an 8% increase over last year and Fox’s best postseason since 2017.<\/p>\n

MLB said the World Series was broadcast in 203 countries and territories by 44 media partners in 16 languages.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in 11 innings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[122120,3960,49,48,56585,36805,1506,2454,487,501,3965,462,82,507,3968,24418,1507],"class_list":["post-264399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-1991-world-series","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fox-deportes","tag-fox-sports","tag-houston-astros","tag-japan","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-washington-nationals","tag-world-series","tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264399","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=264399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}