If you’re reading this, you were probably watching the Cubs’ epic win Wednesday night in Cleveland. You may have been surrounded by fellow Cubs fans or at least knew of many others who were also held captive by what was quite possibly the best baseball game you’ve ever seen. And you have probably heard from several more people who otherwise wouldn’t have cared about baseball but for the drama of a Game 7 involving two historically futile franchises.
That all added up to a 25.2 overnight rating (approximately 38-42 million viewers) for Fox, the highest they’ve had for a baseball game since Game 7 of the 2001 World Series between the Yankees and Diamondbacks earned a 27.