The Chicago Cubs’ four-game triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals on TBS had the largest audience of all four league division series, with 5.5 million viewers, followed by the Mets-Dodgers series with 5.3 million, also on TBS, a good omen for the Cubs-Mets matchup in the National League Championship Series.
The two American League division series on Fox Sports 1 did not attract audiences nearly that size, in part because Canadian cities like Toronto are excluded from Nielsen’s calculations. The series between the Blue Jays and the Texas Rangers averaged only 2.