A series-high audience tuned in to watch the Yankees save their season and extend the World Series to a fifth game.
Tuesday’s Dodgers-Yankees World Series Game 4 averaged an 8.2 rating and 16.28 million viewers on FOX (16.69M including Fox Deportes), marking the highest rated and most-watched Major League Baseball game since Game 7 of the 2019 World Series (Nationals-Astros: 13.1, 23.22M). The previous highs were a 7.9 for Game 6 of the 2021 Braves-Astros World Series and 15.47 million for Game 1 of this year’s Fall Classic (across FOX, Fox Deportes and Univision).
The Yankees’ series-saving win increased a whopping 83% in ratings and 92% in viewership from Rangers-Diamondbacks Game 4 last year (4.5, 8.48M) and 24% and 38% respectively from Astros-Phillies in 2022 (6.6, 11.81M). Ratings and viewership were the highest for a Game 4 in the World Series since Dodgers-Astros in 2017 (8.7) and Indians-Cubs in 2016 (16.71M) respectively. (Keep in mind Game 4 aired on a Saturday night until 2022.)
In addition to outdrawing every other Major League Baseball telecast since 2019, Dodgers-Yankees Game 4 also topped every NBA telecast since the same year and every men’s college basketball game since the 2022 Final Four. Excluding football and the Olympics, Game 4 ranks second for the year among sportscasts behind the NCAA women’s basketball national championship in April.
With the first two games on the two least-watched nights of the week and Game 3 opposite Monday Night Football, Game 4 was the first game in the World Series to live up to the potential of a New York-Los Angeles matchup. The World Series is now averaging 14.98 million viewers, the highest since 2017.
Los Angeles turned in a 19.7 rating and 54 share Tuesday night, with New York at a 12.8/33.
