It would be understandable to assume fewer Atlanta Braves fans are currently watching baseball, as opposed to three weeks ago when the Braves and St. Louis Cardinals were battling it out in the National League Division Series.
As you know, the Braves and Cards have long been gone and we’ve been left with non-Braves baseball, as the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals are currently down to their last game — an elimination Game 7 on Wednesday — after the Nats defeated the ‘Stros 7-2 on Tuesday night.
The Braves’ surge in viewership
In the first half of the 2019 season, it was already rather apparent that the Braves were bound to turn in a solid year in terms of local TV ratings, as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution came out with an article in early July reporting that the team had experienced a 6 percent increase in its ratings, compared to the same time the previous season.