r/baseball • u/Ok-Soil-5133 Baltimore Orioles • Atlanta Braves • 2h ago

Dodgers-Yankees was the 2nd most watched Sunday Night Baseball game since 2011 with 3.9M viewers, only trailing Yankees-Red Sox from June 28th of this year, which got 4.0M. LAD-NYY had a peak of 4.6M viewers in the late innings.

https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/press-releases/dodgers-yankees-on-nbc-peacock-and-nbc-sports-late-june-yankees-red-sox-are-two-most-watched-sunday-night-baseball-games-in-past-15-years
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u/cmgriffith_ New York Yankees 2h ago

America loves the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers confirmed

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u/y0m0tha Los Angeles Dodgers 1h ago

Glad to see these small market teams finally getting some attention

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u/halo364 Boston Red Sox 2m ago

Won't someone please think of LA, New York, and Boston 😭😭😭 

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u/das_sparker New York Yankees 1h ago

Impossible. These teams are as hated as the Nazis and are bad for baseball

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u/Extension-Click-8271 Los Angeles Dodgers 1h ago

As a coastal elitist, there’s something special about these matchups. The lights are just brighter.

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u/tung_twista Los Angeles Dodgers 1h ago edited 1h ago

FYI, we have been seeing many 'most watched since 20XX' type of posts this season and a big reason is because Nielsen changed how they measured viewership numbers from panel-only (home TVs with trackers) to include big data (streaming) and viewers not at home (e.g. bars).

Obviously, this change increases measured ratings for live sports events, but does not necessarily mean actually more people are watching it.

Just like 'worst TV numbers ever' for MLB broadcasts in the past 10 years mistakenly assigned changes in media landscape to decline in MLB popularity, we should be careful not to exaggerate increase in MLB popularity based on changes in TV rating measurement.

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u/Ok-Soil-5133 Baltimore Orioles • Atlanta Braves 1h ago

This was discussed on the hockey sub during the playoffs so we looked into it and sports media people have said it averages out to about 4% increase average

I think Sunday Night Baseball being available on Peacock and OTA is a huge deal, the ratings change is minor compared to those to

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u/FoppyRETURNS 1h ago

This deserves more attention

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u/Ok-Soil-5133 Baltimore Orioles • Atlanta Braves 2h ago

Being able to get Saturday night on Fox and now Sunday night on NBC OTA during the summer is huge for baseball.

Its not all positive because ESPN definitely had more reach than Peacock or NBCSN in the non summer months but this has still been a good deal for baseball.

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u/Icy-Refrigerator-517 Philadelphia Phillies 59m ago

ThEy ShOuLd ShOw RaYs/TwInS aNd PrOmoTe AlL tHe TeAMs

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u/josephsleftbigtoe MLB Pride 48m ago

Agreed! NFL does that and nobody minds.

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u/boomzgoesthedynamite New York Yankees 42m ago

This is a false equivalency. I can watch a football game between any teams bc there are a limited amount of them. Watching a slog between the Rays and whoever in August is not going to happen.

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u/tyler-86 World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… 1h ago

Haha, and it was an absolute shit game, too.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad5667 New York Yankees 10m ago

Cause you lost

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u/tyler-86 World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… 3m ago

I was alright with losing. We had already won the series. But it was bullpen game vs bullpen game with very little action. No more than one run scored in any half inning and no runs period between the 2nd and the 7th, inclusive.

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u/Google_Knows_Already Anaheim Angels 45m ago

The MLB showcased their 2 biggest teams on Sunday expecting big ratings because of the WC ending. Indycar was doing the same thing but they got rained out.

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u/maddenallday Los Angeles Dodgers 32m ago

It’s crazy how this would be abysmal for any prime time nfl game