The World Series is breaking records in Japan.
The World Series is breaking records in Japan . with an average of 15.9 MILLION viewers tuning in to catch the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in Game 2 — making it the most watched outing in MLB postseason history in the country.
The league released the astounding numbers on Monday . revealing the first two games of the Fall Classic averaged almost 30 million viewers in the U.S. and Japan.
MLB said it wasn’t just popular in Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s native country — the matchup also saw a 93% increase within the younger audience (ages 18 to 34).
