Fox's Score: An ALC Series Hit And Several Notable Errors

Bursting with baseball, Fox bagged a rare fourth-quarter weekly win.

Here's a look at the week's triples and foul-outs:

WINNERS

American League Championship Series. Five ALC series games, including a Sunday-dominating crowd of 19 million, catapulted Fox to first place for the week among viewers of all ages and the 18-to-49-year-olds advertisers chase. This year's ALC series averaged nearly 12 million viewers, 10 percent better than last year's National League Championship Series, which Fox aired in prime time.

"Samantha Who?" Christina Applegate suffers cutesifying amnesia in her new series, which proved irresistible to more than 14 million of the 19.4 million viewers tuned in to "Dancing With the Stars." The "Who?" debut last week had the best retention ever of a "Dancing" lead-in audience and was the most watched comedy telecast on any network on any night since a post-"American Idol" broadcast of " 'Til Death" seven months ago.

"Pushing Daisies." ABC greenlighted a full-season order on the critically adored new series, which, while dropping to just under 10 million viewers last week, wins its time slot among 18- to 49-year-olds.

"Private Practice." Four episodes in, ABC's "Greys' Anatomy" spinoff is still the new season's most watched new drama series -- averaging more than 13 million viewers -- so the network gave it a full-season order.

"Big Bang Theory." Even though it continues to pull in smallish numbers against ABC's Monday ratings monster "Dancing With the Stars," CBS's new Chuck Lorre sitcom also snared a full-season pickup because each week it builds on its "How I Met Your Mother" lead-in -- last week, 8 million and 7.7 million viewers, respectively.

LOSERS