The World Baseball Classic (WBC) on Thursday introduced first-round data for attendance, TV viewership and merchandise gross sales, making the fifth installment of the traditional’s first spherical the preferred in its brief historical past.
The attendance determine got here in at 1,010,999, making it essentially the most attended spherical within the historical past of the match.
That mark bested the earlier file of 510,056 set in 2017 by greater than 98 p.c. The common attendance of 25,275 additionally set a file, with host website Japan breaking data by itself by averaging 36,198 followers per sport.
Multiple video games additionally set viewership marks, with the March 10 Japan vs. Korea match-up on TBS setting an all-time file with a 44.4 score in Japan, making it essentially the most watched sport within the historical past of the traditional.
Team USA’s sport on FOX towards Great Britain turned essentially the most watched first-round sport involving the USA since 2009 by averaging 1.592 million viewers.
In addition, this season’s first spherical has already set a file for merchandise gross sales for a whole match. That file consists of each e-commerce and onsite gross sales on the 4 host venues: Phoenix, AZ, Miami, FL, Tokyo, Japan and Taiwan.
–Field Level Media