World Series audience ticks up slightly for Fox

Game 2 of the World Series delivered a 5% increase in overall audience over the corrresponding game a year ago for Fox, but more important for the network might be the final score.

By rallying in the ninth inning to defeat St. Louis, Texas guaranteed the World Series would go at least five games and raised hopes that Fox might get the seven-game affair it has been waiting a decade for.

The total audience for Thursday's Game 2 was 14.3 million viewers, marking the first time in four years that Game 2 outdrew Game 1. Thanks in part to the second straight one-run game of the series, audience figures increased to a peak of 19.4 million viewers after 11 p.m. Eastern for the ninth inning.