{"id":328758,"date":"2026-06-09T06:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328758\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:52:09","slug":"espn-game-2-of-texas-texas-tech-wcws-sets-softball-viewership-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/328758\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN: Game 2 of Texas-Texas Tech WCWS sets softball viewership record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-longhorns\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a>&#8216; win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech<\/a> in the Women&#8217;s College World Series Finals drew some unbelievably good viewership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESPNPR\/status\/2064014413141590227?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN announced<\/a> that the series was the second-most watched softball championship series in Women&#8217;s College World Series history, but some other history was made.<\/p>\n<p>The 2.5 million viewers and peak of 3 million viewers made Game 2 the most-watched college softball game ever. The viewership was up 16% year over year from 2025&#8217;s championship series between Texas and Texas Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas&#8216; win over Texas Tech in the Women&#8217;s College World Series Finals drew some unbelievably good viewership. ESPN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,94936,96496,27,29,28,88145],"class_list":["post-328758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brief","tag-sports-texas-longhorns","tag-sports-texas-tech-red-raiders","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-colleges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}