American viewership for the first two World Series games between the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays was down 14% from last year's game between Los Angeles and the New York Yankees, but Canadian and Japanese audiences set records.
LOS ANGELES — American spectators of the first two games World Series Viewership between the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays was down 14% from last year's game between Los Angeles and the New York Yankees, but Canadian and Japanese audiences set records.
Last year's first two games averaged 14.55 million and this year's first two averaged 12.5 million across Fox, Fox Deportes, Fox One streaming, the Fox Sports app and Univision, Major League Baseball said Tuesday.
MLB said the Game 1 total of 32.6 million viewers in the U.S., Canada and Japan was the highest since the Chicago Cubs ended their 108-year title drought by beating Cleveland in Game 7 of the 2016 series.
Toronto wins 11-4 in game one. averaged 13,305,000 and Los Angeles wins 5-1 in game two.excluding Univision coverage, the average was 11.63 million, Fox said.
Los Angeles won 6-3, 10 innings in last year's opener, which ended with a Freddie Freeman grand slam. watched by 15.2 million peoplethe most popular game in the series since 2019. The Dodgers won 4-2 in Game 2 last year. viewed by 13.44 million people.
Game 1 was watched by 7 million viewers in Canada this year, and Game 2 was watched by 6.6 million people. These are the two most watched Blue Jays games on Sportsnet. The network is owned by Rogers Communications Inc., the parent company of the Blue Jays.
The first game was also broadcast with commentary in French on TVA Sports and attracted 502,000 viewers, becoming the most-watched game on that network.
Game 1 of the year averaged 11.8 million viewers on NHK-G, Japan's most-watched World Series game televised by a single network, while Game 2 averaged 9.5 million viewers on NHK-BS, for a two-game Japanese average of 10.7 million.
The average number of players for the two games in the US, Canada and Japan was 30.5 million.
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