Turner Sports began its Major League Baseball postseason with a solid outing.
Last night’s NL one-game playoff, between the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres, drew a 2.5 national rating (2.9 cable rating) with 4.0 million viewers. The 2.5 rating was higher than all but two Division Series game on cable last year.
The game, which Colorado won in the thirteenth inning, finished as the fourth-highest rated Major League Baseball telecast of the year on cable, behind three Yankees/Red Sox games. The game was also the highest rated sporting event on the Turner family of networks since a NASCAR race drew a 4.0 rating in July.
The 2.5 marks a 37% decline from the 4.0 for the last one-game playoff, a 1999 game between the Chicago Cubs Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets.
Edited to make correction; the 2.9 previously reported is the cable rating, not the national rating.
