The TV ratings for the just-ended World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers that Boston won 4 games to 1 were the fourth-lowest ever, Nielsen said on Tuesday (October 30th). The five-game series that aired on Fox averaged 14,125,000 viewers, with a 8.3 rating and 17 share, which was also down 25 percent from last year, when the Houston Astros beat the Dodgers in seven games, and 40 percent from two years ago, when the Chicago Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians in seven games to win the World Series for the first time since 1908.