ALCS Game 7 sets viewers record
Published: Tue, Oct. 21, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Tue, Oct. 21, 2008 02:20AM
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closeGame 7 of the AL championship series drew the most viewers ever for a baseball game on cable television.
Nearly 13.4 million people watched the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 3-1 on Sunday night on TBS, the network said Monday. That broke the mark set by the 1998 Chicago Cubs-St. Louis Cardinals game on ESPN in which Mark McGwire hit his 61st home run.
Game 7 earned a 7.9 rating, with the series averaging a 4.6. That's up 64 percent from last year's NLCS on TBS.
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