Mix in one of the largest markets in the U.S., a Canadian-based team that captivated a nation and a global superstar, and Major League Baseball hit a grand slam for viewership.

The league announced one Wednesday that Saturday’s Game 7 of the World Series between the Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers from the Rogers Centre averaged a whopping 51 million viewers across those three nations.

That bloated audience number made the epic 11-inning Dodgers win the most-watched MLB game in 34 years with the most viewers tuning in since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and Minnesota Twins.

Over the seven games in the sprawling series, in which the Dodgers won the final two games in Toronto to capture back-to-back titles, the games averaged 34 million viewers, making it

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