All those extra innings Monday night has some critics trying to calculate if Game 3 lasted longer than Ken Burns documentary series Baseball. It did not but close. Here are the box scores from Games 3 and 4 Monday and Tuesday:
Monday October 27: this was the 18-inning, six-and-a-half hour marathon won by the Dodgers. That long stretch ended around two in the morning, yet in terms of average minute audience, a lot of Canadian viewers stuck right through the bitter end.
In overnight estimates, Sportsnet National drew 4,063,000 with an estimated 1,120,000 watching the entire game on City. This wiped out everything else in broadcast or cable, leaving just 291,000 (on TSN) and 118,000 (on CTV2) to watch a Monday Night Football tilt between Washington and Kansas City. Meanwhile, CTV tracked 321,000 in overnights watching Tracker. CBC saw only 228,000 in overnights investigating Murdoch Mysteries.
Tuesday, October 28: the Jays’ bounce back win over the Dodgers to tie the series 2-wins apiece was played in a neat and tidy 9-inning, three hour stretch. Sportsnet National drew an estimated 4,336,000, with the City tally pegged at 1,157,000. That left room for a couple of popular imports on the private networks to score respectable numbers, including 597,000 in overnights for Global’s pickup of old reliable NCIS and 571,000 watching CTV’s High Potential. Canadian shows on CTV were seen by 253,000 (Masterchef Canada) and 226,000 (Traitors Canada). In other sports scores, TSN’s Leafs vs Flames was watched by an estimated 332,000.
Looking back at previous playoff rounds, Numeris took a look at Live + PB same day, AMA data gathered on Sportsnet National+, Sportsnet National ST+ and Citytv Total. They found that ALCS between the Jays and the Seattle Mariners drew an average audience of 4.7 million viewers over the seven games played. In the Toronto/Hamilton market, they calculate, 59.4 per cent of viewers caught some part of the action. In Calgary, almost 49 percent caught some of the action, with other Canadian cities topping the 40 per cent mark. In Montreal, english-speaking viewers were almost as into it as other parts of Canada at 32.5 per cent. In French Canada, not so much at 8.3 percent.
Maybe they were too busy watching the new Netflix documentary Who Killed the Montreal Expos.
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