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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…

It was a sports-filled Sunday in broadcast primetime with Sunday Night Football on NBC and Game 5 of the World Series on Fox. But at the end of the night, it was football that sacked baseball’s fall classic. SNF, on which the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-24, scored a 5.1 rating in fast affiliates…

As promised, Donald Trump attended Game 5 of the World Series at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. The sold-out crowd wasn’t too happy to see him as he was met with an overwhelming chorus of boos before the Nationals took on the Astros. Trump arrived shortly after the first inning along with his wife Melania as well…

President Donald Trump plans to attend tonight’s Game 5 of the 2019 World Series between the hometown Washington Nationals and the visiting Houston Astros. Trump’s appearance was certified last night, as Houston took an 8-1 victory to prepare for a Game 5. The Nationals won the first two games of the series and were…

The Houston Astros have apologized to a Sports Illustrated reporter for attempting to discredit her story. Astros owner Jim Crane sent SI reporter Stepehanie Apstein a letter on Saturday apologizing for the team, which initially called her report on assistant general manager Brandon Taubman “an attempt to fabricate…

The World Series is being held in our nation’s capital for the first time since 1933, the first year of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Although President Donald Trump is a lifelong New York Yankees fan, he said he plans to possibly attend the fifth game of the series, which pits the hometown Washington Natio…

Fox’s broadcast of Game 2 of the World Series between the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals drew a 2.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic on Wednesday night, even with Tuesday’s Game 1 in the early Nielsen numbers. A total of 11.78 million viewers tuned in for the game, which Washington won going away 12-3…

Game 1 of the World Series the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros easily topped Tuesday for Fox in primetime, earning a 2.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and drawing 11.58 million viewers. It may have been a home run for the night, but the early numbers are off considerably from last year’s Game 1…

The first pitch of the 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals is tonight at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT on Fox, which is airing the best-of-7 Major League Baseball championship series for a 20th consecutive year. This year, the World Series will also stream live via the Fox Sports app and air…

Reinforcing one of its live-sports tentpoles, Fox Sports has reached a 10-year, multi-platform extension with Major League Baseball. The deal keeps the World Series on Fox, which has broadcast it every year since 1996, and will step up the number of regular- and post-season games on the network starting in 2022. The…