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ESPN Averages 4 Million Viewers for Yanks-Nationals Opening Night Baseball Telecast

thomas.umstead@futurenet.com (R. Thomas Umstead) — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:21:18 +0000

ESPN drew a record 4 million viewers for its New York Yankees-Washington Nationals Major League Baseball opening night telecast.

The game was the most watched regular season game on any network since 2011, and bested the previous record of 3.7 million viewers set by the St. Louis Cardinals-Chicago Cubs game in 2017, according to Nielsen.

Last year’s Boston Red Sox-Seattle Mariners season opening night telecast drew 1.2 million viewers, said Nielsen.

ESPN’s San Francisco Giants-Los Angeles Dodgers telecast averaged 2.7 million viewers, making it the most watched ESPN late night game ever.

Both games opened baseball’s truncated 60-game regular season schedule after the coronavirus pandemic delayed baseball’s traditional season start by three months.

ESPN Hits Ratings Home Run With Giants-Mets Wild Card Game Telecast

thomas.umstead@futurenet.com (R. Thomas Umstead) — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 22:38:00 +0000

ESPN’s coverage of the Oct. 5 San Francisco Giants-New York Mets National League Wild Card game drew a robust 7.7 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN Deportes and WatchESPN, the network said Thursday.

The audience for the game, won by the Giants 3-0 over the Mets to advance to play the Chicago Cubs in the NL Divisional playoff series, was down from last year's 7.8 million combined audience for ESPN's New York Yankees-Houston Astros AL Wild Card telecast, but still finished as the second most-watched MLB game on ESPN in 13 years, according to the network.

The Giants-Mets game also delivered ESPN its largest streaming audience ever for an MLB event, setting records for total minutes streamed (35.9 million), unique viewers (634,400) and average minute audience (173,800 viewers), according to the network.