Blue Jays fans may have been struggling with watching the end of Game 7 of the World Series, but they were definitely tuning in for all of the action that was unfolding during the last baseball game of the season on Saturday night.
Rogers says its broadcast of Game 7 — which saw the Blue Jays fall 5-4 in extra innings to the Los Angeles Dodgers, leaving them just short of a World Series title — attracted an average audience of 10.9 million viewers in Canada.
That viewership, across Sportsnet, Sportsnet+ and Citytv, amounted to “the most-watched Rogers broadcast ever,” the company said in news release on Monday.
The broader Toronto-L.A. showdown drew an average of 7.5 million Canadian viewers across the seven games in the series, Rogers said.
“The seven World Series broadcasts were the seven most-watched Blue Jays games ever,” it said.
Toronto lost the overall series against Los Angeles 4-3. The Blue Jays won Game 1, Game 4, and Game 5 of the World Series.
Rogers Communications Inc. gained full control of the Blue Jays in 2004, after first acquiring a majority stake in the franchise in 2000.
The company also owns the Rogers Centre stadium, which was originally known as SkyDome.
Blue Jays fans reel from World Series loss
The now-concluded World Series marked Toronto’s third-ever trip to Major League Baseball’s annual championship.
The Blue Jays won back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993. But the team never made it back to the Fall Classic until this year.
For the Dodgers, the victory over the Blue Jays marked the ninth time the franchise won it all. The L.A. ballclub is also the repeat champion, having won the title in 2024.
The Dodgers were also champs in the COVID-shortened 2020 season.
