LOS ANGELES (AP) — The World Series beat “Monday Night Football” in the battle for television viewers.

The The Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the Fall Classic averaged 13.64 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes and streaming according to early Nielsen numbers. That was better than the 13.4 million who signed up for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 26-18 win about the New York Giants on ABC, ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ESPN2 and streaming.

The audience for Yankees-Dodgers peaked at 14.25 million from 9-9:15 PM EDT. It was the most-watched Game 3 since 2018, when the Dodgers’ 18-inning victory over the Red Sox averaged 13.3 million.

It is Fox’s most-watched Monday prime time broadcast since Game 5 of the 2013 Series between Boston and St. Louis (14.45 million).

It was the ninth time since 1986 that a World Series game was played on Monday night, but only the fourth time it was played on network television against “Monday Night Football.”

Last year marked the first time the NFL covered the Fall Classic on Monday night. The Texas Rangers’ 3-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 3 last year is the least-watched World Series game ever, with an average of 8.13 million viewers. That same night, Detroit’s 26-14 win over Las Vegas averaged 15.2 million on ESPN, ABC and ESPN Deportes.

Over three games, the World Series averages 14.42 million, the highest number in seven years.

The game had a rating of 20.0 and 52 shares in Los Angeles and a rating of 11.6 and 29 shares in New York.

The rating is the percentage of television households that are tuned in. The share refers to a percentage of the audience currently watching television.

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