NEW YORK (AP) — The World Series gave the Fox network world-class ratings last week as the New York Yankees squared off against the Philadelphia Phillies in four much-watched games.

Fox can thank baseball for a huge average audience of 14.69 million viewers (8.8 rating, 14 share).

Game 4 was the most-watched program in prime time, followed by Game 1, Game 2 and Fox's pre-game show for Game 4, according to Nielsen Co.

But other networks weren't sleeping. ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" ranked fifth for the week, and CBS' scripted dramas "NCIS,""The Mentalist" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" helped round out the Top 10.

Fox's Game 3 of the World Series ranked ninth.

The first four games, averaging 19 million viewers, far outpaced Fox's 13 million average viewership in 2008 for the first four games of the World Series pitting the Phillies against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Well behind Fox last week but still strong, CBS averaged 9.84 million viewers (6.2 rating, 10 share). ABC was right behind with 9.45 million (6.0 rating, 10 share). NBC had 5.59 million (3.5 rating, 6 share), the CW had 2.24 million (1.4 rating, 2 share) and Ion Television had 870,000 (0.6 rating, 1 share).

Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with 3.25 million viewers (1.7 rating, 3 share). Telemundo had 980,000 (0.5 rating, 1 share), TeleFutura had 860,000 (0.4 rating, 1 share) and Azteca had 240,000 (0.1 rating, 0 share).

NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.50 million viewers (5.6 rating, 11 share). ABC's "World News" was second with 7.95 million (5.3 rating, 10 share) and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.88 million viewers (4.0 rating, 8 share).

A ratings point represents 1,149,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 114.9 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.

The Top 20
Primetime viewership numbers compiled by The Nielsen Co., for Oct. 26-Nov. 1. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.

1. (X) World Series Game 4, Fox, 22.76 million viewers.

2. (X) World Series Game 1, Fox, 19.51 million viewers.

3. (X) World Series Game 2, Fox, 18.90 million viewers.

4. (X) World Series Pre-Game, Game 4, Fox, 17.82 million viewers.

5. (3) "Dancing With the Stars," ABC, 17.38 million viewers.

6. (1) "NCIS," CBS, 16.70 million viewers.

7. (18) "The OT," Fox, 16.61 million viewers.

8. (7) "The Mentalist," CBS, 15.53 million viewers.

9. (X) World Series Game 3, Fox, 15.40 million viewers.

10. (8) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 15.24 million viewers.

11. (12) "Dancing With the Stars Results," ABC, 15.20 million viewers.

12. (10) "Desperate Housewives," ABC, 14.08 million viewers.

13. (4) "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 13.74 million viewers.

14. (16) "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.94 million viewers.

15. (21) "Survivor: Samoa," CBS, 12.19 million viewers.

16. (12) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 11.52 million viewers.

17. (12) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 11.41 million viewers.

18. (24) "Amazing Race 15," CBS, 11.22 million viewers.

19. (5) "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 11.09 million viewers.

20. (16) "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 10.86 million viewers.