Tuesday night’s American League wild-card game, which saw the Houston Astros beat the New York Yankees 3-0, was the highest-rated wild-card game ever, according to Nielsen. The game, which aired on Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN platforms, had a 5.7 overnight rating, making it the highest-rated MLB game in 12 years for the network, according to a news release. The rating was up 50% compared with last year’s AL wild-card game between the Kansas City Royals and Oakland A’s, which garnered a 3.8 overnight rating. Last night’s game also attracted the largest audience for an MLB game on the network’s streaming platform, WatchESPN, with 445,000 unique viewers and an average audience per minute of 127,000 viewers. Time Warner Inc.’s Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) will air Wednesday night’s National League wild-card game between the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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