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Major League Baseball's postseason goes into its dream World Series matchup with its most-watched League Championship Series in seven years. According to Nielsen, the two series averaged 5.35 million viewers on Fox, FS1 and TBS, its highest numbers since 2017. Fox and FS1 averaged 5.62 million for the NLCS, which the Dodgers won in six games. That was the network's most-viewed championship series since 2019. The ALCS between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians on TBS averaged 4.9 million. The overall postseason average going into Friday's first World Series game between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers is 3.96 million, a 5% increase over last year.
