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Baseball’s Rainy Return Shatters Opening Night Viewership Records With Yankees’ Win On ESPN

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Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe heavens opened up on Major League Baseball’s opening day in more ways than one last night.With Biblical rain coming down on National Park on Thursday, the long awaited and coronavirus delayed face-off between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals was cut short.

However, if the record-breaking viewership on ESPN is any indication, fan fervor in a live sports deprived America was hot and heavy.Pulling in an audience of 4 million, the primetime game on the Disney-owned sports cabler now stands as the most watched MLB opening night telecast ever.

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