LOS ANGELES—Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the young TV season. The series rebounded from last year’s contest, which hit an all-time viewership low that was attributed to the pandemic and competition from the 2020 presidential election. The Houston Astros must-have win Sunday over the Atlanta Braves, then leading the series 3-1, was the standout so far in the potential seven-game series, according to Nielsen figures out Tuesday. The 9-5 Astros victory drew 13.6 million viewers—a 35 percent jump over the 10 million who watched 2020’s Los Angeles Dodgers Game 5 defeat of the Tampa Bay Rays. Last year, the Dodgers went on to a six-game win over the Rays that posted a TV rating down 32 percent from the previous World Series low, the San Francisco Giants’ four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers in …
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