Thanks to a rain-delay that pushed the game into primetime, Phillies-Braves hit a four-year viewer high on FOX Wednesday night.
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Wednesday’s Phillies-Braves MLB National League Division Series Game 2, which was pushed back from late afternoon to primetime due to rain, averaged a 2.4 rating and 4.20 million viewers on FOX — marking the most-watched LDS Game 2 in four years (2018 Yankees-Red Sox: 5.06M). Viewership more-than-doubled last year’s Braves-Brewers Game 2 on TBS, which aired on a Saturday afternoon (~2.2M).
Game 1 the prior afternoon averaged a 1.6 and 2.83 million on FOX (2.86 million including Fox Deportes and streaming), up 34% from last year’s Friday afternoon Braves-Brewers opener on TBS (2.12M).
The two Phillies-Braves games were the first Division Series games on the FOX broadcast network since 2006.
Returning to Wednesday night, Padres-Dodgers Game 2 averaged 3.11 million viewers on FS1 — down from last year’s Saturday night Dodgers-Giants Game 2 on TBS (~3.8M). The game overlapped with the aforementioned Phillies-Braves Game 2 on FOX.
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