The 2026 World Baseball Classic (WBC) championship game, in which Venezuela defeated the United States 3-2, attracted 10,784,000 viewers on Fox and Fox Deportes. This figure is nearly double the 5.4 million who watched Japan beat the US in the 2023 final on FS1, Fox Deportes and the network's streaming service.
Fox reported on Thursday that Tuesday night's game averaged 10,228,000 viewers on its main channel alone. That was more than double the 4.48 million on FS1 for Japan's 3-2 victory in 2023 and higher than any of the first four games of the 2023 World Series between Texas and San Francisco.
The tournament as a whole averaged 1,294,000 viewers across Fox, FS1 and FS2, double the 506,000 average for the 2023 edition.
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