ESPN scored a season-high audience for its presentation of the MLB Little League Classic while also averaging more viewers than MLB at Field of Dreams game on Netflix. However, the viewership still fell below NBC's Sunday Night Baseball average.
Sunday's Atlanta Braves-Milwaukee Brewers game in the Little League Classic averaged 2 million viewers across ESPN and ESPN2. Viewership was up 19% from Seattle Mariners-New York Mets in last year's edition (1.70 million).
The game was also ESPN play-by-play man Karl Ravech's final MLB ******* ignment for ESPN after he was laid off by the network.
Viewership peaked at 2.2 million viewers during the 9:45 p.m. ET quarter-hour. It was the most-watched MLB broadcast of the year on ESPN and the second-most-watched Little League Classic ever, behind New York Yankees-Detroit Tigers in 2024 (2.2 million).
ESPN's previous most-watched broadcast was St. Louis Cardinals-Chicago Cubs last weekend on ABC, which averaged 1.99 million.
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Sunday's Atlanta Braves-Milwaukee Brewers game in the Little League Classic averaged 2 million viewers across ESPN and ESPN2. Viewership was up 19% from Seattle Mariners-New York Mets in last year's edition (1.70 million).
The game was also ESPN play-by-play man Karl Ravech's final MLB ******* ignment for ESPN after he was laid off by the network.
Viewership peaked at 2.2 million viewers during the 9:45 p.m. ET quarter-hour. It was the most-watched MLB broadcast of the year on ESPN and the second-most-watched Little League Classic ever, behind New York Yankees-Detroit Tigers in 2024 (2.2 million).
ESPN's previous most-watched broadcast was St. Louis Cardinals-Chicago Cubs last weekend on ABC, which averaged 1.99 million.
#espn #league #classic #york
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