LOS ANGELES (AP) — U.S. viewers for the first two games of World Series between the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays dropped 14% from last year's matchup between Los Angeles and the New York Yankees, but Canadian and Japanese audiences set records.

Last year's first two games averaged 14.55 million and this year's first two averaged 12..5 million on Fox, Fox Deportes, Fox One streaming, the Fox Sports app and Univision, Major League Baseball said Tuesday.

MLB said the combined 32.6 million viewers for the opener in the U.S., Canada and Japan were its highest since the Chicago Cubs' ended their 108-year title draught by beating Cleveland in Game 7 of the 2016 Series.

Toronto's 11-4 win in Game 1 averaged 13,305,000 and Los Angeles' 5-1 victory in Game 2 , which did not include Univisio

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