It takes a special set of circumstances for Major League Baseball to get better head-to-head ratings against the NFL but that's exactly what surrounded Monday night as Game 3 of the World Series went against Monday Night Football. Front Office Sports crunched the numbers and declared a rare win for baseball, the former national pastime, over the current one.
The momentum from the star-studded World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees has winnowed somewhat as Game 3 on Monday drew an average audience of 13.6 million across all Fox Sports platforms, slightly less than totals for the opening two games. But perhaps more meaningfully, Major League Baseball prevailed in its only head-to-head competition with the NFL during the World Series, as a concurrent Monday Night Football game between the Giants and Steelers drew an average of 13.4 million on ESPN and ABC.
