The Baseball Mafia is very excited about the TV Ratings for Game One of the MLB Finals!
The network averaged 11.48 million viewers for its broadcast of the Philadelphia Phillies’ 6-5, 10-inning victory over the Houston Astros on Friday. That’s up 6 percent over last year’s first game (10.81 million) and the best for a World Series opener since 12.19 million watched game one of the 2019 series. Fox also got a 2.9 rating among adults 18-49 for the game, up about 15 percent year to year. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
Sure, I guess that’s better than DOWN, but fortunately THR has some perspective..
On the flip side, Friday’s telecast is still the third-lowest opening game on record for the
World SeriesMLB Finals, ahead of only the previous two years. (The 2020 series, played after a pandemic-shortened season, holds the all-time low for average viewers across the full series and for each of its six individual games.)
Looking at things another way, baseball is twice as popular as FIRE COUNTRY on CBS which did 5.3 million. On Fire Country, a young convict joins a firefighting program looking for redemption and a shortened prison sentence. He and other inmates work alongside elite firefighter.
Season 97 of Blue Bloods got 5.8M if you’d like another comparison.
Thursday Night’s TNF game with Tom Brady, which wasn’t even on “TV TV” drew 10.01M….which is worse than baseball, which is back baby! The 18-49s love it!
The MLB Finals feature the 6-seed Philadelphia Phillies vs. the Notorious Illegal Bat Using Cheaters Houston Astros.
