Mix in one of the largest markets in the U.S., a Canadian-based team that captivated a nation and a global superstar, and Major League Baseball hit a grand slam for viewership.

The league announced one Wednesday that Saturday’s Game 7 of the World Series between the Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers from the Rogers Centre averaged a whopping 51 million viewers across those three nations.

That bloated audience number made the epic 11-inning Dodgers win the most-watched MLB game in 34 years with the most viewers tuning in since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and Minnesota Twins.

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Over the seven games in the sprawling series, in which the Dodgers won the final two games in Toronto to capture back-to-back

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