ESPN’s MLB Game Viewership Up 13 Percent from 2024

The August 24 edition of Sunday Night Baseball presented by Capital One , featuring the Boston Red Sox vs. the New York Yankees, drew ESPN’s second-largest audience of the MLB season with 2,572,000 viewers on average. The game peaked with 2,889,000 viewers at 8:15 p.m. ET, according to Nielsen.

Viewership was up 96 percent from last year’s game on the same weekend – the Houston Astros vs. the Baltimore Orioles – which averaged 1,310,000 viewers. The most-watched ESPN MLB game of 2025 was the New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Dodgers June 3 contest, which averaged 2,729,000 viewers.

Major League Baseball games on ESPN have averaged 1,728,000 viewers this season, up 13 percent from last season. The average includes Sund

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