With Ohtani and Yamamoto playing, the World Series averaged a record 12.9 million viewers in Japan

With Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto making their first appearance, nan World Series averaged 12.9 cardinal viewers successful Japan, making it nan most-watched Fall Classic successful nan nation’s history

LOS ANGELES -- With Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto making their first appearance, nan World Series averaged 12.9 cardinal viewers successful Japan, making it nan most-watched Fall Classic successful nan nation's history.

Along pinch nan United States ratings, nan five-game bid betwixt nan Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees had a mixed 28.7 cardinal mean successful nan 2 countries.

The Dodgers’ 4-2 triumph successful Game 2 averaged 15.9 cardinal successful Japan, making it nan most-watched postseason crippled successful nan nation’s history, according to Major League Baseball. Yamamoto was nan Dodgers' starting pitcher and allowed only 1 tally and 1 deed successful 6 1/3 innings.

Tokyo is 19 hours up of New York and 16 hours up of Los Angeles, meaning nan games started astir 9 a.m. connected Saturday and Sunday greeting successful Japan. The games were carried done Fuji TV, NHK BS and J Sports.

The Series besides delivered grounds viewership successful Canada, Mexico, nan Dominican Republic and Taiwan, according to MLB.

The World Series averaged 15.8 cardinal viewers successful nan U.S. connected Fox, Fox Deportes and streaming, its champion capacity since 2017. That is simply a 67% summation complete past year, erstwhile nan Texas Rangers' triumph complete nan Arizona Diamondbacks successful 5 games averaged only 9.11 million, which was nan lowest-recorded Series average.

Los Angeles was nan apical marketplace pinch a 18.9 standing and 53 stock while New York was 3rd pinch a 12.4 standing and 41 share. San Diego was 2nd astatine 12.4 and 41.

The standing is nan percent of tv households tuned in. The stock refers to a percent of nan assemblage viewing it astatine nan time.

Fox and FS1 averaged 7.49 cardinal for nan postseason, a 42% jump complete past year, and its champion mean successful 7 years.

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