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Padres-Dodgers Game 5 is top LDS game since 2017
A deciding game featuring the star-studded, big market Dodgers delivered the largest Division Series audience in seven years.
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Friday’s Padres-Dodgers NLDS Game 5 averaged 7.24 million viewers on FOX, per Nielsen fast-nationals (7.5 million including Fox Deportes and streaming) — the largest LDS audience since Yankees-Indians Game 5 on FS1 in 2017 (7.26M) and the largest NLDS audience since Mets-Dodgers Game 5 on TBS in 2015 (7.38M). Compared to the previous NLDS Game 5, Dodgers-Giants on TBS three years ago, viewership increased 9% from 6.64 million.
The Dodgers-Padres series generated two of the three largest audiences of this year’s LDS, with Game 3 ranking third. FOX and FS1 averaged 4.10 million viewers for the NLDS, up 9% from last year on TBS (3.74M) and the most-watched LDS on any network since the 2015 NLDS on TBS. Prior to this year, the last time FOX carried a deciding LDS Game 5 was 2005, when a Monday night Yankees-Angels game averaged 13.7 million.
San Diego led all markets Friday night with a 19.6 and whopping 59 share, meaning that 59 percent of homes using television were tuned to the game. Los Angeles followed with an 11.1 and 41. (It should be noted that 11% of homes in Los Angeles equals a far larger figure than 20% of homes in San Diego.) Kansas City was the top neutral market with a 4.7/15, followed by New York City at a 4.6/15 and St. Louis at a 4.4/14.
