The Los Angeles Dodgers rallied to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays in a decisive Game 7 to capture their second consecutive World Series championship and ninth in franchise history.
The winner-take-all matchup saw 27.3 million viewers tune in on Fox, making it the most-watched World Series game since 2017. The network also had its highest viewership for a Fall Classic and MLB postseason as a whole in eight years.
Meanwhile, Game 7 of the World Series drew an average audience of 10.9 million viewers on the Rogers network in Canada. It was the most-watched English-language broadcast in the country since the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Game 7 of the World Series also averaged a combined 51 million viewers across the United States, Canada and Japan. That made it the the most-watched MLB game since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.
Game 7 carried high stakes for both the Dodgers and Blue Jays. L.A. was looking to become baseball’s first repeat champion in 25 years, and Toronto had most of Canada supporting them in their first World Series appearance since 1993.
The Dodgers overcame a three-run deficit to win back-to-back World Series titles. It was a game that featured just about everything, including a benches-clearing incident in the fourth inning.
Miguel Rojas evened the score in the top of the ninth with a one-out home run before making a spectacular force play in the bottom half of the inning to keep the game tied.
Will Smith later provided the go-ahead blast in the 11th, before Yoshinobu Yamamoto recorded the final out to earn his fifth win of the postseason and second in as many days.
Dodgers make World Series history
Rojas and Yamamoto each made World Series history with their respective contributions in the Dodgers’ Game 7 win over the Blue Jays.
Rojas became the first player to hit a game-tying home run in the ninth inning or later of a World Series Game 7, while Yamamoto became the first pitcher in World Series history to win three games on the road, as well as the first pitcher to win Games 6 and 7 on the road.
Yamamoto also became the first pitcher in MLB history to allow no more than five hits, one run and one walk with at least five strikeouts while earning the win in three consecutive postseason starts.
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