The Astros’ win Tuesday night over the Yankees produced the largest audience for a Major League Baseball wild card game, ESPN said Wednesday.
The game produced a 5.7 major-market Nielsen rating, making it the highest-rated Major League Baseball game on ESPN in 12 years. It also broke the record for a wild card game of 4.1 for the Giants-Pirates game last year.
In Houston, the game had a 14.8 rating, totaling about 351,000 of Houston’s 2.3 million television households, and was the most-watched Major League Baseball game on ESPN ever in Houston. The game had a 12.