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Wondering if Saturday night's rain delay drove viewers away from Fox's coverage of World Series Game 3? It appears not.

Ratings for Game Three of the World Series was up 49 percent, a 57-percent increase from last year's series, the TV ratings site By the Numbers reports.

The New York Yankees won 8-5 to take a 2-1 lead in the series against the Philadelphia Phillies. Game Three averaged an audience of 15.4 million viewers Saturday on FOX, according to Nielsen Media Research.

That makes Game Three the highest-rated, and most-watched prime-time Saturday broadcast on any network since FOX's Arizona Cardinals playoff win against the Carolina Panthers on Jan. 10, 2009.

Rain had an impact on World Series Game 3 in Philadelphia for the second straight year, but Saturday's television audience didn't go away despite the 80-minute delay.

According to the ratings, when play got underway at 9:17 p.m., tune-in was a solid 6.9 percent audience share, and peaking at 17.2 million viewers at 10:30 PM ET. As prime time in the Eastern and Central Time zones ended, the game was in the top of the fifth inning.

Philadelphia topped all markets for Game Three in audience share, followed by the New York area.

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