NEW YORK—World Series television ratings for Game 2 dropped despite a new television schedule this year.
Boston’s 2-1 victory over Colorado on Thursday night got an 11.1 rating and 18 share, Fox said Friday. That’s down 4 percent from the 11.6/18 for Detroit’s 3-1 win over St. Louis in Game 2 last year, which was played on a Sunday night and followed an NFL broadcast.
The rating was up 7 percent from the Thursday night game in last year’s World Series, a 5-4 victory by St. Louis that drew a 10.4/18.
The two-game average of 10.8/18 is up 10 percent over the 9.8/17 for the first two games last year. Boston’s 13-1 win in the opener got a 10.5 rating, up 31 percent from a record-low 8.0 for last year’s Game 1, played on a Saturday night.
Game 2 drew a 51.2/71 in Boston, a 41.1/56 in Providence, R.I., and a 40.6/57 in Denver. It had an 11.9 rating in New York, a 10.4 in Los Angeles and an 11.0 in Chicago.
