Dodgers Win Repeat World Series, Draws 51M Viewers

The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their second consecutive World League Baseball World Series title on Saturday with a 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in an 11-inning Game 7 thriller at Rogers Centre in Toronto, drawing a record-breaking global audience of 51 million viewers across the United States, Canada, and Japan.

The decisive game, which saw the Dodgers rally from a 4-2 deficit, averaged 27.3 million viewers in the U.S. on Fox Sports, Fox Deportes, and streaming platforms, according to Nielsen data. It marked the most-watched Major League Baseball game in the U.S. since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves. In Canada, the broadcast on Sportsnet and TVA Sports reached 10.9 million viewers on average, representing the largest English-language sports telecast in the country's history outside the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. An aggregate of 18.5 million Canadians, or 45 percent of the population, watched some portion of the game. Japan contributed 12 million viewers despite a 9 a.m. local start time, boosted by the presence of stars Shohei Ohtani and World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

The seven-game series averaged 15.7...