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Yankees-Tigers Tops Tuesday MLB Games, Helping Turner LDS Audience Rebound

Turner Sports averaged a 3.1 overnight Nielsen rating for four MLB LDS games yesterday across TBS and TNT, up 3% from three games on the comparable fifth day of LDS coverage last year (Sunday), all of which were on TBS. The top-rated game last night was Yankees-Tigers ALDS Game Four from 8:30pm-12:00am ET, which earned a 5.2 overnight. There is no comparable rating from last year, as the Yankees-Twins ALDS lasted only three games. Earlier in the day, Phillies-Cardinals NLDS Game Three earned a 3.8 overnight, up 18.8% from a 3.2 rating for Giants-Braves Game Three last year, which aired on a Sunday. In the early afternoon slot, the series-clinching Rangers-Rays Game Four earned TBS a 1.9 overnight, up slightly from a 1.8 rating for the comparable Game Four in the same matchup last year, which also aired on a Sunday afternoon. TNT’s lone game yesterday -- Brewers-D’Backs Game Three -- earned a 1.3 overnight in the 9:30pm window. TBS/TNT have already set a record for the number of LDS telecasts (17) dating back to Turner acquiring MLB playoff TV rights. The previous record was 15 games set in '08 and '10 (Austin Karp, THE DAILY).

PITCHER'S PERSPECTIVE: In N.Y., Bob Raissman writes Yankees P A.J. Burnett "was the major hook for TBS" during last night's Yankees-Tigers game. Analysts Ron Darling and John Smoltz "checked in on the pitcher" early in the game, with Smoltz doing "most of the talking." He was "heavy into emphasizing how Burnett's arm and 'release point' were not very well connected." Raissman: "Credit Smoltz with some simple but brilliant analysis" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/5).

ME & MY SHADOW: ESPN.com's Amy Nelson noted during yesterday's Phillies-Cardinals Game Three at Busch Stadium, seeing "was clearly difficult" due to the late-afternoon shadows on the field. Cardinals 1B Albert Pujols said, "We can't do anything about it. We've been talking all year long, there is nothing we can do about it. Maybe if we were the New York Yankees maybe we would have played an 8:00 game today. It is what it is. I just don't understand when we play a 4:00 game the league knows we have tough shadows out there, but there's nothing you can do. They're making their money, they're paying their money. I guess they can put the game time however they want it" (ESPN.com, 10/4).

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