MLB World Series Breaks 8-Year Viewing Record
By Movieguide® Contributor
This year’s World Series drew record numbers of viewers as people around the country tuned in to root for the Dodgers and the Yankees.
Deadline reported that the series’ Game 4 “drew 16.7M viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes and streaming,” making it “the biggest audience for this World Series so far.”
The outlet also pointed out that this is a significant jump from the previous two games, which averaged “about 13 [million] each.”
“With just over 16M viewers on Fox alone, Tuesday night’s matchup was the network’s most-watched World Series Game 4 in eight years, since Cleveland Guardians beat the Chicago Cubs to the tune of 16.7M viewers on the broadcaster,” Deadline wrote.
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The Yankees had a 5-0 lead, but the L.A. team scored five runs in the fifth inning, winning Game 5, 7-6.
“This team has zero quit in it,” Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen said postgame, via NBC. “If we don’t have the outcome that we want, there are always guys out there picking each other up and challenging ourselves to be better. That’s why we won tonight.”
Throughout the 2024 season, many of the Dodgers shared their faith and how it supports them during games.
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The Dodgers last won the World Series in 2020, in a shortened season, due to COVID-19. It’s the team’s first full-season title since 1988.
Treinen told Fox, “What a moment for our team…There’s been a lot of people that want to discredit 2020, and I don’t want to harp on this a lot, but it’s so great to see the guys still here from then be able to finally silence the critics from then.”
“A lot of people counted us out… but these guys believed in one another,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “Now, they’re world champions.”
