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The Major League Baseball playoffs have reached the second round with the National League Division Series on FOX and FS1 while the American League Division Series are on TBS with all games aired nationally on radio by ESPN Radio. The first four games saw an average of 3.639 million viewers this past weekend.
The series between the Mets and the Phillies saw the Mets score six runs in each game. Game 1 was an easy 6-2 win for New York, but Sunday saw the Phillies get a 7-6 walk-off win to even the series.
In the other series between two National League West rivals, the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani homered in Game 1 to lead the Dodgers to a 7-5 win before they gave up six home runs in Game 2 and fell 10-2.
FOX Sports says in the FS1-era of postseason baseball, which dates back to 2014, this is the highest average through the second game of the LDS ever on FOX and FS1.
The National League had the day off on Monday while the American League saw the Detroit Tigers even their series with the Cleveland Guardians and the Kansas City Royal tie their series with the New York Yankees.
