The final local television ratings numbers are in and the Royals were a smash.
Royals games on Fox Sports Kansas City in 2015 averaged an all-time best 12.3 rating — 114,000 households — in the Kansas City market, according to Nielsen.
That’s the highest local TV rating in Royals’ history and the highest in baseball for a regional sports network since the Seattle Mariners averaged a 13.2 rating in 2002.
The Royals’ average rating jumped from 6.7 last season.
The highest rated game on Fox Sports Kansas City this season was April 26, in Chicago against the White Sox.