ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" Featuring the Detroit Tigers vs. Philadelphia Phillies Averaged 2 Million Viewers - Up 72% From Last Year's Comparable Game
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The Philadelphia Phillies 2-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on the August 3 edition of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball Presented by Capital One averaged two million viewers (2,030,000). The audience peaked with 2,417,000 viewers in the 9 p.m. ET quarter hour, according to Nielsen.
Viewership for the Tigers vs. Phillies game broadcast was up 72 percent from last year's comparable Sunday Night Baseball game.
ESPN is generating its largest Sunday Night Baseball Presented by Capital One audience in eight years, since 2017. Sunday Night Baseball is averaging 1,680,000 million viewers, up seven percent from last year.
On deck: the Chicago Cubs visit the St. Louis Cardinals on the August 10 edition of Sunday Night Baseball Presented by Capital One at 7 p.m. For the updated schedule, visit ESPNPressRoom.com
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