This year’s World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers was one of the most compelling in history, and the ratings for the heart-stopping Game 7 showed that audiences agreed. The Dodgers’ 11-inning, 5–4 victory in the exhilarating/soul-crushing contest (depending on your perspective) on Saturday night had an average of 25.45 million viewers on Fox in preliminary Nielsen ratings.
That’s baseball’s biggest audience since the Astros stole signs and cheated defeated the Dodgers in Game 7 of the 2017 World Series. And once international audiences are included for this year’s Game 7, you can expect an even more jaw-dropping overall total. Game 1 of the 2025 Series had an average of 32.6 million viewers from the US, Canada and Japan, the home country of the Dodgers’ superstar Shohei Ohtani and World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto.—DL