Mookie Betts #50 of the Los Angeles Dodgers slides in safely previous Mike Zunino #10 of the Tampa Bay Rays to attain a run on a fielders selection
Mookie Betts #50 of the Los Angeles Dodgers slides in safely previous Mike Zunino #10 of the Tampa Bay Rays to attain a run on a fielders selection hit by Corey Seager (not pictured) in the course of the sixth inning in Recreation Six of the 2020 MLB World Sequence at Globe Life Subject on October 27, 2020 in Arlington, Texas.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers’ first World Sequence championship in additional than three many years attracted 12.6 viewers on Tuesday night time, the most-viewed sport of the sequence. However the rankings had been loads decrease than final yr’s video games, a constant theme all through the sequence.
Recreation six of the 2020 World Sequence between the Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays peaked at 14.Three million viewers on Fox Sports activities. The community collected the streaming numbers and viewership from different Fox properties, giving it 13.2 million whole viewers that night time.
By comparability, Recreation 6 of the 2019 World Sequence between the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals drew 15 million whereas Recreation 7 of the sequence attracted 23 million viewers.
The Dodgers beat the Rays 3-1 within the MLB finale, profitable the sequence 4-2. Shortstop Corey Seager took dwelling World Sequence Most Useful Participant honors for the Dodgers, who received their first World Sequence since 1988. It is the workforce’s seventh championship total.
The Covid-19 pandemic impacted the World Sequence, which was performed in Arlington Texas at Globe Life Subject, averaging roughly 9.7 million viewers for six video games after beginning with roughly 9.2 million within the opener. Recreation Three attracted barely over eight million and have become the least-watched World Sequence sport ever — or not less than since Nielsen started monitoring rankings in 1968.
Consumption habits and an overflow in sports activities telecasts as a result of pandemic have assisted the decline of sports activities viewership and community reveals however MLB had no competitors on Tuesday with the Nationwide Soccer League between video games and the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation having already concluded its bubble season.