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MLB All-Star Game Viewers up 6% to 7.44 Million After Falling to Record Low Last Year
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By Associated Press
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July 18, 2024

National League's Shohei Ohtani, of the Los Angeles Dodgers, left, celebrates his three-run home with Jurickson Profar, of the San Diego Padres, in the third inning during the MLB All-Star baseball game, Tuesday, July 16, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (AP/Julio Cortez)

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NEW YORK — Paul Skenes, Shohei Ohtani, Jarren Duran and the rest of this year’s All-Stars drew 7,443,000 viewers on Fox, up 6% from the 2023 game but the second lowest for the event.

American League Victorious in Close Contest

The American League’s 5-3 victory at Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday night saw an increase from the 7,006,000 viewers for the National League’s 3-2 win last year at Seattle. The 2022 game in Los Angeles was watched by 7.51 million.

This year’s game had a 3.8 rating and 12 share, down from a 3.9/12 last year. The rating is the percentage of television households tuned to a program and the share is the percentage tuned to a program among those households with televisions on at the time.

Spanish-Language Viewership Rises, Home Run Derby Numbers Dip

An additional 116,000 viewers watched Spanish-language coverage on Fox Deportes, up 36% from 85,000 last year.

The Home Run Derby on Monday night, won by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Teoscar Hernández, drew 5.45 million viewers on ESPN, down 11% from 6.11 million last year and 6.88 million in 2022. This year’s derby was opposite the first night of the Republican National Convention.

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