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Major League Baseball has opted not to punish Los Angeles Dodgers star Justin Turner for joining his teammates in an on-field celebration of winning the World Series after he’d left the game because of a positive COVID-19 test. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said today that Turner apologized for the October 27 incident…

The Los Angeles Dodgers winning their first World Series title since the Reagan era Tuesday was tempered by news that the team’s star third baseman Justin Turner tested positive for COVID-19 and was informed late in the deciding Game 6. He left the field before the eighth inning and was put in isolation but returned…

After decades of drought, the Los Angeles Dodgers finally bathed in triumph in the World Series last night. In their first championship since 1988 and with baseman Justin Turner pulled from the game late after it was found he tested positive for COVID-19, the Dodgers took down the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in Game 6 on…

UPDATED with positive COVID-19 test news: The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday night, clinching the franchise’s seventh world championship and first since 1988. The win secured a 4-2 series victory against the Rays in the playoff finale played in Arlington, TX…

UPDATED, 10:59 AM: The near final numbers are in and 60 Minutes‘ election edition looks to have taken down Sunday Night Football, the World Series and pretty much everything else on TV since the Oscars. With 17 million viewers, the sit-downs with Lesley Stahl and Norah O'Donnell (and one petulant POTUS walk-off) with D…

The World Series continues to struggle in the ratings demo wars, as Game 3 of the Los Angeles Dodgers-Tampa Bay Rays match trailed Friday’s standard programming fare, continuing its trend of record-lows. The early ratings saw the Series come in with a network average of 1.3 over its three-hour time slot. Benefiting…

ABC was packed with season premieres Wednesday in primetime, starting with a double helping of The Goldbergs, which delivered a 0.8 in the adults 18-49 demographic for both episodes, which averaged about 4.1 million viewers. In its new Wednesday slot, The Conners (0.9, 4.76M) was down from its second-season averages…

Fox’s coverage of Game 1 of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays topped Tuesday’s TV ratings in primetime. The opener delivered night-leading 1.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic while 7.22 million viewers tuned in to watch the Dodgers beat the Rays 8-3. Last year’s Game 1…

The World Series gets underway tonight when the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of a best-of-7 showdown to crown the champion of this most unusual Major League Baseball season. Fox is airing all seven games of the series, with the first pitches for each set for 8:09 p.m. ET/5:09 p.m. PT from…

Major League Baseball teams returned to the field this week for the start of spring training. Grapefruit and Cactus league play has been an annual ritual for more than a century ahead of the spring start of the regular season, but this year there are as many existential questions as fastballs flying through the…

UPDATED, 1:35 PM: The final ratings numbers are in, and the Game 7 of the 2019 World Series was a home run for Fox and Major League Baseball. The Washington Nationals’ win over the Houston Astros drew 24 million viewers across all of Fox’s platforms. Read all the details below. PREVIOUSLY, 9:42 AM: It has been a…

Game 6 of the World Series took over Tuesday night, hitting an impressive home run in fast-affiliate ratings. The Fox broadcast earned a 3.8 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 15.31 million viewers who watched the Washington Nationals force a series-deciding Game 7 with a 7-2 victory on the road against the Houston…