The Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series had record-setting ratings. Here's what it means

Two years ago, the Dodgers acceptable retired to go Japan’s team. The Toronto Blue Jays are Canada’s team.

When the 2 teams collided successful this year’s World Series, the ratings deed the stratosphere.

The deciding Game 7 of the World Series attracted a grounds 51 cardinal viewers crossed the United States, Canada and Japan, Major League Baseball said Wednesday, making it the most-watched MLB crippled since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.

The bid averaged 34 cardinal viewers crossed the 3 countries, the largest planetary assemblage for the World Series since 1992. The assemblage extracurricular the U.S. was the largest ever — adjacent with different countries yet to beryllium tallied.

In the U.S. alone, an mean of 16.1 cardinal viewers watched each game, an summation from past twelvemonth adjacent with the New York Yankees retired and a Canadian squad in. (The bid was a much melodramatic 7 games this twelvemonth and 5 past year, which helped.)

For the 3rd consecutive twelvemonth and 5th clip successful six years, the World Series had a higher standing than the NBA Finals — this year, 56% higher.

The beardown World Series ratings — and attendance that roseate for the 4th consecutive twelvemonth — underscore the hazard owners would instrumentality if they locked retired players adjacent wintertime and unopen down the athletics successful a quest for a wage cap.

After a enactment stoppage that outgo the league the extremity of the 1994 play and the commencement of the 1995 season, mean attendance did not rebound to pre-strike levels until 2006. Attendance soon dipped again arsenic crippled times routinely crept past 3 hours — the transportation timepiece has solved that — and amid the pandemic.

Even with the caller gains, attendance remains 10% beneath its 2007 peak.

The Atlanta Braves, contempt missing the playoffs for the archetypal clip since 2017, announced Wednesday that 2025 revenues done Sept. 30 had deed $671 cardinal — up 10% from past twelvemonth — and profits had deed $36 million.

The Braves’ revenues included $71 cardinal from the Battery, their ballpark-adjacent improvement that depends mostly upon selling 3 cardinal tickets to Braves games each year. (As a publically traded company, the Braves are legally required to merchandise fiscal data; the Dodgers and astir different teams are not.)

Los Angeles led each U.S. tv markets successful World Series ratings, followed successful bid by San Diego, Seattle, St. Louis and Milwaukee, according to Fox data.

Both the existent and aboriginal homes of the Athletics — Sacramento and Las Vegas, respectively — ranked among the apical 10.

In Japan, a state with one-third the colonisation of the U.S., the World Series averaged 9.7 cardinal viewers. In Canada, a state with one-tenth the colonisation of the U.S., the bid averaged 8.1 cardinal viewers.

The Game 7 broadcast successful Canada was the most-watched of immoderate English-language broadcast connected grounds speech from the 2010 Winter Olympics, which were held successful Vancouver.