Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game returned with a viewership bump.
Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game averaged 8.24 million viewers on FOX, up 1% from the last time it was held in 2019 (8.14M), but the second-smallest audience ever for the game. Ratings were not immediately available.
The game, which peaked with 8.90 million from 9-9:15 PM ET, comfortably outdrew the NBA All-Star Game on TNT and TBS in March (5.94M) as well as the most recent Pro Bowl in January of last year (7.97M).
Notably, the audience for this year’s All-Star Game is not too far behind last year’s six-game World Series (9.79M) or this year’s ongoing NBA Finals (9.0M through three games).
At the same time, it is also not much higher than the 7.13 million who watched Monday’s Home Run Derby on ESPN. The All-Star Game outdrew the Derby by 16%, the smallest gap between the events since 2017 (14% — 9.28M to 8.17M).
San Diego led all markets Tuesday night with a 12.2 rating and 28 share, its highest rating for the All-Star Game since 2007 (14.1/24). Ratings jumped 45% from 2019 (8.4/17).
Host market Denver pulled a 9.6/22, its highest All-Star Game rating since 2010 (11.4/20). Its rating increased a third from 2019 (7.2/15).
Several other markets hit multi-year highs, with including a five-year high for Boston (7.7/16, +15%) and six-year highs for Cincinnati (11.3/23, +38%), the Bay Area (8.4/22, +71%) and Detroit (7.5/16, +32%).
[Nielsen estimates from Fox Sports]
