NEW YORK — This year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game drew 7,443,000 viewers on Fox, up 6% from the 2023 matchup between the American League and National League but the second-lowest tally for the event.
The AL’s 5-3 victory on Tuesday night at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, drew 437,000 more viewers than the 7,006,000 who tuned in for the NL’s 3-2 win last year at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. The 2022 edition of the Midsummer Classic at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles was watched by 7.51 million.
This year’s game had a 3.8 rating and a 12 share, down from a 3.9/12 last year. The rating is the percentage of television households tuned to a program, while the share is the percentage tuned to a program among those households with televisions on at the time.
An additional 116,000 viewers watched Spanish-language coverage on Fox Deportes, up 36% from 85,000 last year.
The MLB Home Run Derby on Monday night in Arlington, won by Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández, drew 5.45 million viewers on ESPN, down 11% from 6.11 million last year; the 2022 event drew 6.88 million. This year’s Home Run Derby was opposite the first night of the Republican National Convention.