Tuesday night’s broadcast of the Yankees-Blue Jays was the most-viewed YES Network telecast in eight years.
Aaron Judge’s pursuit of Roger Maris’ American League home run record has brought big numbers for the network, peaking at 901,000 total viewers (8:45-9:00p ET) and averaging 708,000 total viewers on Tuesday night. Those numbers are the highest were the highest total for the network since Derek Jeter’s final home game on September 25, 2014. That game averaged 1.2 million total viewers.
YES has averaged at least 600,000 total viewers in each of their last three primetime Yankees games. YES has had 40 games this season that have averaged at least 400,000 total viewers and six games that have averaged at least 500,000 total viewers.