The 2025 MLB World Series was won in seven games by the defending champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers. (Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)
Game Seven from Major League Baseball’s recently concluded 2025 World Series averaged 51 million combined across the US, Canada, and Japan.
The series finale between the Los Angeles Dodgers, featuring popular Japanese star Shohei Ohtani, and Canada’s Toronto Blue Jays was won by the Dodgers, who secured their second consecutive championship.
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The contest, which ran for 11 innings, became the most-watched MLB game in 34 years, since Game Seven of the 1991 World Series.
Across the whole seven games, meanwhile, the viewership average in those three countries was 34 million. This marks an increase of 19% from the equivalent figures last year, when the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in five games.
Specifically, market-by-market, the whole series registered an average 16.1 million viewership figure for domestic broadcaster Fox and its various associate networks – Fox Deportes, Univision, the Fox Sports App, and Fox One.
This made the 2025 World Series the most-watched in the US since 2017, when the Houston Astros beat the Dodgers in seven games.
The Fox-MLB deal – valued at $5 billion in total – runs across the 2022-28 cycle and gives that network exclusive World Series rights.
In Canada, meanwhile, the seven-game series averaged 8.1 million viewers, with Game Seven specifically averaging 11.6 million viewers. That game has become the most-viewed Canadian English-language broadcast since 2010.
Viewers in that country were able to watch the action via either Rogers-owned Sportsnet (English-language) or via the French-language TVA Sports.
In Ohtani’s native Japan, Game Seven specifically averaged 12 million viewers on the NHK-BS channel, with the seven-game average as a whole coming to 9.7 million.
Overall, the 2025 World Series was shown across 203 countries by 44 distinct broadcast partners and was aired in 16 languages.
Other substantial viewing numbers were released earlier this week.
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