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For Major League Baseball and its broadcast partners, the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees remains the biggest draw. Image created by Liam McGuire, Comeback Media (background photo credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images).

Red Sox-Yankees game drew MLB’s biggest regular season audience in 3 years

"Respect the rivalry"

By Michael Dixon OnJun 10, 2025 0
Oct 30, 2024; New York, New York, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers players and coaches celebrate after winning the 2024 MLB World Series against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images

Dodgers-Yankees Game 5 gives World Series highest viewership since 2017

The 2024 World Series drew great numbers for MLB and Fox, but both will be wondering what could have been with a short series.

By Matt Yoder OnNov 1, 2024 0
New York Yankees outfielder Alex Verdugo (24), outfielder Aaron Judge (99) and outfielder Juan Soto (22) celebrate

World Series Game 4 audience hits multi-year high

Through four games, the Fall Classic is averaging 14.98 million viewers.

By Drew Lerner OnOct 30, 2024 0
New York Yankees outfielder Alex Verdugo

Game 3 World Series viewership down as Dodgers eye sweep

While it was the least-watched game of the series so far, it was the most-watched Game 3 since 2018.

By Drew Lerner OnOct 29, 2024 0
Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge, edit via Liam McGuire

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Predicting Dodgers-Yankees World Series viewership

Shohei Ohtani (17) and the Dodgers celebrate advancing to the NLCS on Oct. 11, 2024.

Dodgers-Padres Game 5 drew more viewers in Japan than United States

The Dodgers-Padres game featuring Shohei Ohtani, Yu Darvish, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto drew a massive audience in Japan.

By Matt Yoder OnOct 17, 2024 0
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez celebrates with shortstop Miguel Rojas

Multiple Game 5s lead to most-watched MLB Division Series in 7 years

The Division Series captured an average of 3.56 million viewers across 18 games

By Drew Lerner OnOct 14, 2024 1
New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor greets teammates before game

Marquee teams deliver strong viewership for MLB divisional series

Led by a number of brand-name teams, Fox's broadcasts of NLDS games have seen strong bumps compared to last season.

By Drew Lerner OnOct 8, 2024 0
Mets second base Jose Iglesias and shortstop Luisangel Acuna react after the ninth inning against the Milwaukee Brewers in game one of the Wildcard round for the 2024 MLB Playoffs

MLB Wild Card viewership sees big jump on day one

Tigers-Astros on ABC averaged 3.19 million viewers, up 44% from last season.

By Drew Lerner OnOct 2, 2024 0
Eduardo Pérez, David Cone, and Karl Ravech in the broadcast booth during a regular season Sunday Night Baseball game.

ESPN’s ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ puts up best viewership numbers since 2019

SNB averaged 1,505,000 viewers across the 25 broadcasts.

By Reice Shipley OnSep 24, 2024 0
Corey Seager Texas Rangers Game 3

Should you care about World Series ratings?

World Series ratings have reached historic lows. Should sports fans care about the predicament or just enjoy the show?

By Awful Announcing Newsletter OnNov 1, 2023 12
MLB Postseason

What is Major League Baseball missing?

The Major League Baseball postseason is right around the corner, but the sport is struggling to create any hype about it.

By Awful Announcing Newsletter OnSep 27, 2023 14

ESPN, Fox weekend MLB broadcasts up from season averages to start 2023

A positive start for two national packages.

By Joe Lucia OnApr 4, 2023 2

White Sox-Astros draws best Opening Day audience for ESPN since 2020

This was also the most-watched regular season Astros game since 2017.

By Joe Lucia OnMar 31, 2023 1
Nolan Arenado

World Baseball Classic pulling out all stops to surpass 2017 numbers

"The best players on the biggest stage and that's what we want and part of this is to grow the game and you want the best players participating so it's exciting."

By Jessica Kleinschmidt OnFeb 8, 2023 0

2022 World Series Game 6 is least-watched ever, series ends as most watched since 2019

The World Series finished better than each of the last three seasons, but Game 6 was not a highlight.

By Joe Lucia OnNov 8, 2022 2
The Dodgers celebrating a Wild Card Game win.

Cardinals-Dodgers produces TBS’ second-highest Wild Card Game audience ever

The game averaged 6.7 million viewers.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 7, 2021 0
The Boston Red Sox celebrate a Wild Card win.

Yankees-Red Sox sets new AL Wild Card Game viewership record, is most-watched MLB game on ESPN since 1998

The ESPN audience averaged 7.11 million, with an average of 583,000 more watching on ESPN2 and 144,000 more watching on ESPN Deportes.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 6, 2021 1
The 2021 Field of Dreams game.

“Field of Dreams” game averaged 5,903,000 viewers across Fox and Fox Deportes

This game wound up drawing very, very well for Fox, and it looks like it may become a regular thing.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnAug 13, 2021 0

World Series Game 1 draws a record low 9.195 million viewers

This year's World Series opener drew three million fewer viewers than last year's Game 1.

By Joe Lucia OnOct 21, 2020 11

ESPN’s MLB Opening Day game averaged 4 million viewers, most-watched regular season game since 2011

The game's viewership peaked with 4,480,000 viewers at 8:30 p.m. ET.

By Sean Keeley OnJul 25, 2020 1

Through five games, the 2019 World Series has produced three of the 10 least-viewed World Series games on record

The 2019 World Series ratings have not been good at all from a historical perspective.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 28, 2019 10
The World Series ended with a Red Sox win, but without great ratings.

Red Sox-Dodgers World Series was third-lowest rated on record, ahead of only 2012 and 2014

The 8.3 average rating was the third-lowest on record, and the average viewership of 14.13 million viewers (on linear Fox) was the fourth-lowest.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 30, 2018 10
Patrick Wisdom and the Cardinals shone in the local ratings this year.

MLB local ratings up 2 percent overall for 2018 regular season, with Cardinals jumping into first

The Cardinals, Red Sox and Brewers had the best stories with their local ratings this year.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 5, 2018 5

ESPN draws impressive overnights for its two MLB Tiebreaker games

An unprecedented day of two MLB tiebreaking games led to the highest ratings for afternoon regular season games on the Worldwide Leader

By Ken Fang OnOct 2, 2018 0

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