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Padres fans just proved they hate-watched Dodgers World Series like no other

The Los Angeles Dodgers may have won the 2025 World Series, but they weren't the only ones to secure a major victory.

After years of dwindling viewership in the Fall Classic, the Dodgers have injected baseball's biggest stage with its biggest audience in some time, and this year's clash with the Toronto Blue Jays even upped the ante over last year's five-game set against the New York Yankees.

Game 7, in particular, drew a huge crowd, totaling an average of 51 million viewers between the United States, Canada, and Japan. None of that is too surprising — Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki are the biggest international draws in the sport — but what is a shock is the breakdown in viewership by U.