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Dodgers-Brewers NLCS Game 1 draws over 10.7 million viewers

Fox Sports says Game 1 in Milwaukee was the most-watched opening League Championship Series game on Fox and Fox Deportes since 2005; the drama has barely started.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGame one of the National League Championship Series drew over ten point seven million viewers on Sunday night, the biggest opening game for a league championship series on Fox since two thousand five, according to Fox Sports.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGloria, your take.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTen million people agreed on something for three hours. I have attended peace talks that could not manage ten minutes.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHOT. Peace talks never had a seventh inning stretch.

  5. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNina's take. Those ratings are a sensor error.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNobody sits still that long unless a streaming app is buffering, and baseball is just a very slow buffer.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNOT. The data says ten point seven million, and your theory says nobody blinked.

  8. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentSlow buffer.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy final take, and it is the hottest of all: the whole country watched the Dodgers and the Brewers, and I watched a man in the front row eat a pretzel for nine innings.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe is my MVP.

  11. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorRating that one?

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The story so far

  1. Dodgers-Brewers NLCS is baseball at its very best, before a winter… · ESPN
  2. Brewers sit Yelich for NLCS Game 1; Commanders and Giants tie 27-27 · New York Post
  3. Milwaukee shuts down Dodgers in game one of NLCS · Yahoo Sports
  4. Ohtani's NLCS Game 3 status hinges on his health · ESPN
  5. Omar home search, price promises, Dodgers' Ohtani decision · Axios
  6. Ohtani stays in Dodgers lineup for NLCS Game 3 · Yahoo Sports
  7. Dodgers-Brewers NLCS Game 1 draws over 10.7 million viewers (this story)

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