The World Series got off to a excellent commence for Fox on Friday as the game that ended in a emotional walk-off 6-3 triumph for the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Yankees dedwellred the hugest Game 1 audience for the drop classic since 2017.
Fox Sports telled that an mediocre of 15.2 million watchers tuned in to see the Dodgers loss the Yankees at home in the 10th inning. Dodgers slugger Freddie Freeman hit a picture-perfect walk-off home run with bases loaded. Viewership peaked at 17.8 million at 11:30 p.m. ET thraw the final half-hour of the game, per Fox.
The game aired atraverse Fox Sports’ licsurrfinisher and digital platcreates, as well as cabler Fox Deportes and Spanish-language enormous Univision, which partnered with Fox for the World Series.
The rarity of a Yankees-Dodgers World Series has increaseed interset in this year’s MLB championship round. Viewership was up 62% from 2023’s Game 1 between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Texas Rangers. That game didn’t crack 10 million watchers (9.3 million watchers).
In 2017, the boot off to the Houston Astros-Dodgers series, which would become a talk aboutous binformage-eye for the Astros follotriumphg a sign-stealing and cheating talk about, brawt in 15.3 million watchers, per Fox.
In the battle of West Coast-East Coast fandoms, Los Angeles won Friday by a expansive margin. The game mediocred a 19.1 hoemployhanciaccess rating and 58 scatter in the L.A. taget. In New York, the nation’s hugest TV taget, the drop classic grabbed a 13.2/37 in the same meastateives — uncomferventing that a far hugeger proportion of L.A. TV watchers were tuned in to the game dwell than were Yankees fans in New York.
Fox remarkd that Friday’s game taged its highest-rated telecast on a Friday night since it carried Game 3 of the 2017 Astros-Dodgers World Series.
(Pictured: Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman after hitting the game-triumphning home run)
