The Women’s College World Series championship series between Washington and Florida State averaged 1.38 million viewers, according to data provided by ESPN.
Game 1 of the championship finals averaged 1,232,000 viewers based on ESPN’s data. That number was up 20% over the most recent comparable matchup, game one of the 2016 championship series. Data from 2017 was not applicable since game one of that championship series went to seventeen innings and spanned nearly five and a half hours.
Florida State won game 1 of the series by a score of 1-0 thanks to a 6th-inning home run by Anna Shelnutt.
In game 2 of the championship finals, the ESPN broadcast averaged 1.52 million viewers, up nearly 300,000 from just the night before. The game, which Florida State won 8-3, was the third-highest average viewership for a championship series game two since 2010.
The pre-championship rounds of the WCWS averaged 783,000 viewers across the variety of networks. That number was up 4% over the 2017 average and up 18% over similar comparisons in 2016.
