MLB All-Star Game viewership up 6% after falling to record low last year, while Home Run Derby declined

The MLB All-Star Game saw a slight bump in 2024.

On Tuesday, Major League Baseball’s best, from Shohei Ohtani to Paul Skenes, participated in the showcase event of All-Star weekend. The All-Star Game drew 7,443,000 viewers on Fox this year, according to the AP. That number is up 6% from the previous year’s game, but overall, the number isn’t so impressive, as it’s the second-lowest viewership in the event’s history.

The 5-3 win by the American League saw a 437,000-viewer increase from when the National League won 3-2 in 2023. In 2022, the viewership was higher, bringing in 7.51 million viewers.

This year's game rating was a 3.8, with a share of 12. That’s down slightly from last year, when the rating was a 3.9 with the same amount of shares. The rating is the percentage of television households tuned to a program, while the share is the percentage tuned to a program among those households with televisions on at the time.

Spanish-language coverage on Fox Deportes brought in 116,000 viewers. That number is up 36% from the year prior, when there were 85,000 viewers.

Viewership for the Home Run Derby on Monday went in the opposite direction of the game. Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Teoscar Hernandez’s win brought in 5.45 million viewers to ESPN. That’s an 11% decrease from 2023, when the event drew 6.11 million. In 2022, the Home Run Derby saw a viewership of 6.88 million.