I thought this was rather noteworthy:
Marathon Tigers-Mariners Game 5 nears nine million mark
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Friday’s Tigers-Mariners American League Division Series Game 5 averaged a Nielsen-estimated audience of 8.59 million viewers on FOX (8.73M across all Fox platforms, per Nielsen and Adobe Analytics), marking the largest audience for any Division Series game since Tigers-Yankees Game 5 on TBS in 2011.
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Not only was it the most-watched game of the playoffs thus far, it comfortably outpaced the previous high of 7.4 million for Red Sox-Yankees Game 3 on ESPN in the Wild Card round (albeit on cable and opposite “Thursday Night Football”).
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