The World Series acquired off to a very good begin for Fox on Friday as the sport that resulted in a dramatic walk-off 6-3 win for the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Yankees delivered the biggest Sport 1 viewers for the autumn traditional since 2017.
Fox Sports activities reported that a mean of 15.2 million viewers tuned in to see the Dodgers defeat the Yankees at dwelling within the tenth inning. Dodgers slugger Freddie Freeman hit a picture-perfect walk-off dwelling run with bases loaded. Viewership peaked at 17.8 million at 11:30 p.m. ET by way of the ultimate half-hour of the sport, per Fox.
The sport aired throughout Fox Sports activities’ linear and digital platforms, in addition to cabler Fox Deportes and Spanish-language large Univision, which partnered with Fox for the World Collection. Univision reported that viewership throughout its community and Fox Deportes mixed for a complete of 1.29 million viewers. By TelevisaUnivision’s rely, that’s the largest Spanish-language viewers for a World Collection sport ever. Univision by itself accounted for 1.05 million viewers and 364,000 within the adults 18-49 demo.
The rarity of a Yankees-Dodgers World Collection has boosted general curiosity on this yr’s MLB championship spherical. Viewership was up 62% from 2023’s Sport 1 between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Texas Rangers. That sport didn’t crack 10 million viewers (9.3 million viewers).
In 2017, the kick off to the Houston Astros-Dodgers collection, which might change into a scandalous black-eye for the Astros following a sign-stealing and dishonest scandal, introduced in 15.3 million viewers, per Fox.
Within the battle of West Coast-East Coast fandoms, Los Angeles received Friday by a large margin. The sport on Fox averaged a 19.1 family score and 58 share within the L.A. market. In New York, the nation’s largest TV market, the autumn traditional grabbed a 13.2/37 in the identical measures — which means {that a} far larger proportion of L.A. TV viewers had been tuned in to the sport dwell than had been Yankees followers in New York.
Fox famous that Friday’s sport marked its highest-rated telecast on a Friday night time because it carried Sport 3 of the 2017 Astros-Dodgers World Collection.
(Pictured: Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman after hitting the game-winning grand slam.)
