World Baseball Classic: Team USA’s semifinal win over Dominican Republic draws more viewers than 2025 MLB All-Star Game

Aaron Judge made waves Monday within the wake of Team USA pulling off a thrilling and controversial 2-1 win over the Dominican Republic within the World Baseball Classic semifinals.

“The crowd here, the crowd we had when we played against Mexico, it’s bigger and better than the World Series,” Judge said.who notably launched a momentum-shifting and heat-seeking missile from right field to throw out Fernando Tatis Jr. in the third inning of Sunday’s triumph over Team DR

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“The passion that these fans have to represent their country, to represent some of their favorite players, there’s nothing like it.”

The TV rankings are in from that popcorn-worthy showdown, and whereas they are not larger and higher than the World Series, they’re record-breaking.

While enjoying for a spot within the WBC ultimate, USA and the DR drew 7,369,000 viewers throughout FS1 and Fox Deportes, making that semifinal traditional probably the most watched WBC telecast of all time. More folks watched it than final 12 months’s MLB All-Star Game, which averaged 7.2 million viewers.

And that is whereas the Oscars had been airing.