2016 WORLD SERIES BASEBALL PATCH SERIES
In terms of total viewers, this year’s series will surpass the ’04 series tonight if it were to go seven games, it would likely be the second-most-watched World Series of the century behind the 2001 series.
There’s a really good chance that this series moves ahead of the 20 editions tonight, although it’s unlikely to catch either 2001 or 2004 in average viewers, absent an absolutely wild Game Six followed up by an incredible Game Seven - and then, even that might not be enough. The only other series ahead of the current one - the seven-game set between the Florida Marlins and New York Yankees and the six-game series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies - are well within reach for Chicago and Cleveland, even if their series doesn’t reach a seventh game. The end of Boston’s drought and that epic seven-game series between the Diamondbacks and Yankees just weeks after 9/11 both drew great numbers. Here’s where the series stands before Game Six.ĭespite featuring only two close games out of five, and without the benefit of a clinching game, this series already ranks fifth since 2000 in viewership. With at least one game to go in this year’s series, we’ve already seen one of the more highly rated World Series of the century. Indeed, only one non-2004 World Series game exceeded Sunday night’s in terms of viewership: the Diamondbacks-Yankees contest from 2001, best remembered for Derek Jeter’s 10th-inning walk-off homer against Byung-Hyun Kim. The game drew more viewers than the epic extra-inning Game Six between the Cardinals and Rangers in 2011. More people tuned into to see Sunday night’s World Series game than watched Game One in 2004 when the Red Sox began their attempt to end the curse. The table below shows the most-viewed non-clinching games since 2000, the year FOX exclusively began broadcasting the World Series. If you remove clinching games, it was one of the most viewed games of the century. Since Boston ended their 86-year championship drought back in 2004, only one game has drawn more than the 23.6 million viewers Cleveland and Chicago netted on Sunday night: Game Seven of the 2011 World Series between the St. The broadcast of Game Five on Sunday night was one of the highest-rated broadcasts for the World Series in years. That MLB has garnered ratings not seen in a decade, however - and bested the top-rated program in all of television over the past few years - represents a big win for a sport receiving near-constant criticism for sagging ratings. That Major League Baseball went head-to-head with the NFL and won isn’t that big of a deal.
Millions more opted to watch the Chicago Cubs host their final home game of the year and stave off elimination in a close game. This past Sunday night, one of the most important baseball games of the year went head-to-head with a primetime regular-season NFL broadcast on NBC.
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