One Incredible Viewership Stat From The Blue Jays-dodgers 18-inning Game

1. When Freddie Freeman launched a game-winning location tally successful nan bottommost of nan 18th inning connected Monday nighttime successful Game 3 of nan World Series it was 2:50 a.m. connected nan East Coast.

Remarkably, 8.5 cardinal group successful nan United States were still watching nan crippled astatine that clip and witnessed Freeman starring nan Dodgers to a 6–5 triumph complete nan Blue Jays.

The mean viewership for nan full game, which lasted six hours and 39 minutes, was 11.4 million. Ratings peaked betwixt 11:30 and 11:45 p.m. ET erstwhile 13.1 cardinal group were tuned in. (That was during nan ninth inning.)

Game 3 besides had to spell up against nan Commanders-Chiefs Monday Night Football game, which drew 17.6 cardinal viewers.

Game 1 of nan World Series connected Friday was watched by 13.3 cardinal people, while 11.6 cardinal tuned into Game 2 connected Saturday.

It’s difficult to judge nan ratings occurrence of this World Series because of nan beingness of a Canadian team. According to Sports Media Watch, Monday’s crippled was nan 4th least-watched Game 3 successful nan U.S. since 2012. While that isn’t shocking since 1 of nan teams does not relationship for a U.S. market, it’s still somewhat disappointing because Nielsen is utilizing a different methodology to count viewers and numbers crossed nan committee successful sports person accrued importantly successful caller months.

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3. Joe Davis is successful a reliable spot. He is nan Dodgers’ section play-by-play guy. Naturally, pinch him calling nan World Series nationally, viewers are going to deliberation he’s pulling for L.A. nary matter what.

It hasn’t helped Davis that his calls for nan Dodgers sound a tad much enthusiastic than his calls for nan Blue Jays.

Given Toronto pulled disconnected 2 consecutive wins aft losing nan 18-inning game, nan telephone of nan last retired past nighttime successful Game 5 seemed a small ho-hum.

4. We sewage immoderate vintage Inside nan NBA connected Wednesday erstwhile Kenny Smith compared Lakers defender Austin Reaves, who conscionable deed a game-winning changeable against nan Timberwolves, to Jeremy Lin.

5. I don’t cognize really galore group sewage nan statement dropped by Celtics play-by-play feline Drew Carter regarding Jaylen Brown past night, but you don’t often get a hairsbreadth transplant joke during a ballgame, truthful kudos to Carter.

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