Dodgers-Yankees was the 2nd most watched Sunday Night Baseball game since 2011 with 3.9M viewers, only trailing Yankees-Red Sox from June 28th of this year, which got 4.0M. LAD-NYY had a peak of 4.6M viewers in the late innings.
America loves the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers confirmed
Glad to see these small market teams finally getting some attention
Won’t someone please think of LA, New York, and Boston ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜Â
Impossible. These teams are as hated as the Nazis and are bad for baseball
As a coastal elitist, there’s something special about these matchups. The lights are just brighter.
FYI, we have been seeing many ‘most watched since 20XX’ type of posts this season and a big reason is because Nielsen changed how they measured viewership numbers from panel-only (home TVs with trackers) to include big data (streaming) and viewers not at home (e.g. bars).
Obviously, this change increases measured ratings for live sports events, but does not necessarily mean actually more people are watching it.
Just like ‘worst TV numbers ever’ for MLB broadcasts in the past 10 years mistakenly assigned changes in media landscape to decline in MLB popularity, we should be careful not to exaggerate increase in MLB popularity based on changes in TV rating measurement.
This was discussed on the hockey sub during the playoffs so we looked into it and sports media people have said it averages out to about 4% increase average
I think Sunday Night Baseball being available on Peacock and OTA is a huge deal, the ratings change is minor compared to those to
This deserves more attention
Being able to get Saturday night on Fox and now Sunday night on NBC OTA during the summer is huge for baseball.
Its not all positive because ESPN definitely had more reach than Peacock or NBCSN in the non summer months but this has still been a good deal for baseball.
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Agreed! NFL does that and nobody minds.
NBC has had some unusual prime time matchups this year though.Â
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This is a false equivalency. I can watch a football game between any teams bc there are a limited amount of them. Watching a slog between the Rays and whoever in August is not going to happen.
Haha, and it was an absolute shit game, too.
Cause you lost
I was alright with losing. We had already won the series. But it was bullpen game vs bullpen game with very little action. No more than one run scored in any half inning and no runs period between the 2nd and the 7th, inclusive.
Shhhh they don’t know about objectivity yet
The MLB showcased their 2 biggest teams on Sunday expecting big ratings because of the WC ending. Indycar was doing the same thing but they got rained out.
It’s crazy how this would be abysmal for any prime time nfl game
I have no desire to watch dodgers Yankees games.
I’m sorry you hate good baseball
All these strong ratings numbers this year…….just feels like 94 in many ways.