Yankees, Astros draw biggest TV numbers for AL wild-card
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NEW YORK - With the New York Yankees playing, baseball's wild-card game has drawn its largest television audience in its short history.
The Houston Astros' 3-0 win over New York in the AL wild-card game Tuesday night on ESPN averaged more than 7.6 million viewers.
The network said Wednesday that's up 36 percent from the 5.6 million for last year's NL game between the San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates on ESPN, which was the previous high. It's up 46 percent from the 5.2 million for the 2014 AL game between small-market Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics on TBS.
Major League Baseball added the wild-card round in 2012.
- With files from theScore