Game 2 of the World Series Wednesday night on FOX averaged a 3.4 adult 18-49, matching Game 1’s young adult rating. Actually, if we look at the rating to two decimal places rather than the archaic one-tenth of a rating point, Game 2 (3.40) is slightly ahead of Game 1 (3.38). But any reasonable person would say they are the same number, and both are record lows for their respective Games.
Today, we are providing the same historical chart of the early World Series games with the broader measure of persons 2+ (the total audience). The pattern is nearly identical to the 18-49 chart. If the World Series were a stock, just about any analyst, technical or fundamental, would scream “Sell!” looking at these trendlines. Last night, Game 2 averaged 12,917,000 persons 2+, up slightly from 12,191,000 for Game 1. Although Game 1 was a record low with the persons 2+ measurement, MLB can rejoice that last night was not the least-viewed Game 2 in history. That distinction remains with Game 2 in 2012 between San Francisco and Detroit (12,343,000). So I guess things could be worse for national baseball ratings.
The tables below tracking the recent six years have also been updated. The series moves to San Francisco Friday-Sunday. Check back for continued updates.
| World Series TV Ratings by Game Since 2009 (Live+Same Day) | ||||||||
| A18-49 Rating | G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | G5 | G6 | G7 | |
| 2009 | NYY-PHI | 6.3 | 5.8 | 4.7 | 7.8 | 5.3 | 7.4 | |
| 2010 | TEX-SF | 4.7 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 4.3 | 4.2 | ||
| 2011 | TEX-STL | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 6.5 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | DET-SF | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 4.7 | |||
| 2013 | BOS-STL | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 5.7 | |
| 2014 | KC-SF | 3.4 | 3.4 | |||||
| P2+ (millions) | G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | G5 | G6 | G7 | |
| 2009 | NYY-PHI | 19.51 | 18.90 | 15.40 | 22.76 | 17.09 | 22.34 | |
| 2010 | TEX-SF | 15.01 | 14.13 | 11.46 | 15.54 | 14.95 | ||
| 2011 | TEX-STL | 14.17 | 14.28 | 11.20 | 15.16 | 14.32 | 21.06 | 25.40 |
| 2012 | DET-SF | 12.24 | 12.34 | 10.47 | 15.49 | |||
| 2013 | BOS-STL | 14.40 | 13.43 | 12.47 | 15.98 | 14.45 | 19.18 | |
| 2014 | KC-SF | 12.19 | 12.92 | |||||
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