Sports Ratings Tracker

New York Yankees games on YES Network are averaging 292,000 viewers so far this season, up 5% from last year (277K). Nearly half of the games this season have averaged at least 300,000 viewers, compared to a third at the same point last year.

Last Saturday’s Mets-Yankees Major League Baseball game averaged a combined 901,000 viewers across MLB Network (316K) and the New York RSNs SNY (301K) and YES Network (284K).

The first game of the series on Friday night averaged 644,000 across MLB Network and YES (322K each). For YES, it was the most-watched game prior to Memorial Day in a couple of years. For MLB Network, it was the most-watched Friday night game since last July.

SNY did not carry the Friday game, which aired on WPIX.

As previously noted, the Sunday game delivered ESPN’s largest Sunday Night Baseball audience in seven years.

Sunday’s Brewers-Yankees Major League Baseball game averaged 432,000 viewers on YES, marking the network’s most-watched non-primetime game in almost exactly a year — since the opening Sunday of last season against the Astros (450K).