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US viewership for the first two games of the World Series between the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays dropped 14% from last year’s matchup los angeles and the New York Yankees, but the Canadians and Japani The audience made records.
Last year’s first two games averaged 14.55 million and this year’s first two games averaged 12.5 million on Fox, Fox Deportes, Fox One Streaming, Fox Sports App and Univision. Major League Baseball Said on Tuesday.
MLB said the U.S., Canada and Japan had a combined 32.6 million viewers for the opener, the most since chicago cubs‘ ended their 108-year title drought by defeating Cleveland game 7 of the 2016 series.
Toronto’s 11–4 win in Game 1 averaged 13,305,000 and Los Angeles’ 5–1 win in Game 2, which did not include Univision coverage, averaged 11.63 million, Fox said.
Los Angeles’ 6-3, 10-inning victory in last year’s opener, which ended with Freddy Freeman’s grand slam, was watched by 15.2 million viewers, the most-watched Series game since 2019. The Dodgers’ 4-2 victory in Game 2 last year was watched by 13.44 million viewers.
This year, Game 1 was watched by 7 million viewers in Canada and Game 2 was watched by 6.6 million, the two most watched Blue Jays games on Sportsnet. The network is owned by Rogers Communications Inc., the Blue Jays’ parent company.
The opener was also broadcast with French-language commentary on TVA Sports and drew 502,000, making it that network’s most-watched game.
This year’s opener averaged 11.8 million on NHK-G, the most-watched World Series game broadcast by a single network in Japan, and Game 2 averaged 9.5 million on NHK-BS, with a two-game Japanese average of 10.7 million.
The two-game average was 30.5 million in the US, Canada and Japan.
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