33 million peak viewers in the US
https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/world-series-game-7-the-most-watched-rogers-broadcast-ever/
Over 18.5 million Canadian watched at least some of game 7
https://hochi.news/articles/20251104-OHT1T51141.html?page=1
21.91 Japanese viewers watched at least some of game 7
Pretty staggering total numbers, and I have to think this makes Game 7 one of the most watched baseball games in history (decades ago domestic baseball ratings were higher, but there wasn't nearly the same level of international viewership)
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Not bad considering Canadians lack baseball IQ.
19 million Canadians were on suicide watch
Dudes will see this and say hell yeah
I saw clips of Japanese watch parties on twitter, they were locked in, and then to get to see Yamamoto do what he did? Iconic
It’ll be interesting to see if this translates to a bump in WBC numbers, especially if the tournament is anywhere near as exciting as the last WBC was
Your welcome for saving baseball /s
The best part of this is that a percentage of those viewers will become fans and get more into baseball.
More viewers is definitely bad and ruin baseball, we have been told
Excited to watch the WBC to see which next Japanese pitcher we will be signing in the next year or 2 lol
“We just had 73 million people watch one of the most exciting World Series games ever… we should probably have a lock out after next season.” – MLB
Around half the Canadian population vs 10% the US population. Wild considering baseball is America’s past time
Man, maybe we should ruin baseball more often
Activate the magnetic left field wall.
Yes sir….
We need more! How many people watched in Mexico? What about Korea? I WANT MORE NUMBERS!
Stupid Dodgers ruining baseball.
How many of those 73 million have a cardiologist?
Well, in all fairness, you’re comparing different things here.
The US figure is the peak of simultaneous viewers. But the Japanese and Canadian numbers are the sum of all viewers at any point in the game, ie. the ones who watched for 5 minutes and never came back.
And TV viewership numbers are always given as an average across the program, not total viewers at any given point.
For instance, 2016’s Game 7 had 75-80 million total US viewers, peaked at over 50 million at the end, but averaged 40 million throughout. 40 million is the final number that goes down in the record book.
The official average viewership for 2025’s Game 7 was 27.3 million for US, 10.9 million for Canada, and 10.5 million for Japan. 48.7 million, which is still huge.
Seems like the move would be to get a team in Mexico pronto.
I know that it’s a typo but seeing “21.95 Japanese viewers” made me chuckle.
21 million or 21 people 😛
Get ready to see Dodgers caps everywhere globally
This is good for baseball
Considering the CL final has around 100 mil viewers, I would say the WS nipping at that is very impressive.
Just in time for the lockout after next year
Big time right there. 33 million in US alone. That’s crazy.
The difference between this match up and Rangers/Dbacks in 2023 getting 9mil US or whatever (and probably barely anything from JPN/CAN) is crazy. It feels kind of worrying that MLB benefits this much more from certain team’s success vs others, as in I don’t think it’s good for small fandom teams that MLB will be so incentivized against them. MLB needs to get better with neutral fans.
I don’t know what’s crazier, that about 45% of Canadians watched at least some of Game 7, or that around 18% of Japanese watched a baseball game at like 8 am.
Please don’t strike and ruin this MLB
That’s just some crazy numbers!! hope there will be lots of new baseball fans made from all over the world because of this amazing postseason!!
Yet baseball is so broken that there might be a lockout in 2 years. Go figure