The Los Angeles Dodgers’ dramatic 5-4, 11-inning comeback over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 7 of the 2025 World Series averaged 25.984 million viewers across FOX, FOX Deportes, and FOX Sports streaming—the highest for any World Series game since 2017 and the best Game 7 since the Astros-Dodgers classic (28.2M).
Viewership on the FOX broadcast alone hit 25.45 million, with another 534,000 on Spanish-language and digital platforms; the game peaked at 31.543 million during the 11:30-11:45 p.m. ET window as Will Smith’s go-ahead homer and Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s eight-out relief masterpiece sealed L.A.’s repeat title.
In Canada, Sportsnet’s audience is expected to top 8 million once finals drop, pushing the U.S.-Canada-Japan combined total past 40 million—a global record for a non-2016/2017 Fall Classic game.
The entire seven-game series averaged 14.76 million on FOX alone, up 18% from 2023’s all-time low and the most-watched October since the pandemic.
Fox sold out its ad inventory at premium rates, with 30-second spots fetching north of $1.1 million—a payday that instantly green-lights MLB’s 2026 rights talks.
Nielsen’s final “Big Data + Panel” numbers, due Tuesday, will add out-of-home viewing and likely push the Game 7 total past 26.5 million.