The 2018 World Series, which wrapped up Sunday with the Boston Red Sox winning it in five games over the Los Angeles Dodgers, was the least-watched Series in several years, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports.
Sunday’s Game 5 on Fox delivered a 12.3 rating in metered-market households, “easily the best of the series thus far,” THR reports. “It was down slightly, however, from Game 5 in 2017 (12.8), as has been the case for the prior four games.”
THR adds: “It’s likely that the 2018 series, despite featuring teams from two top-10 media markets, will go down as the least-watched since at least 2015.”
Baseball needs to do something about the length of games or at least the start times. People are not interested in spending 4 or more hours watching a 9 inning game on a work night. Each batter is in and out of the box and then the pitcher steps off the mound and it goes on and on. I used to be a baseball fan, but it has become a slog to sit through.