Red Sox's Game 4 clincher gets high ratings for Turner
Red Sox players celebrate their win over the Yankees in Game 4 of the ALDS on Tuesday at Yankee Stadium. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
The Red Sox's ALDS-clinching victory over the Yankees on Tuesday night was the most-viewed Game 4 of a division series on Turner since 2007, the network said.
An average of 7.1 million people watched the Red Sox win, 4-3, with a peak of 8.5 million from 11:15 to 11:30 p.m.
The game attracted 23.9 percent of homes in the Boston area, the best such figure for a division series in that market since 2008. The New York market averaged a rating of 13.1.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
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