RATINGS for Saturday’s Yankees-Marlins World Series opener were up over last year’s Angels-Giants opener.

Ratings for Game 1, between the Yankees and the Marlins, were up 16 percent over last year’s Game 1.

That was the most year-to-year growth for a World Series Game 1 since 1990, according to preliminary figures from Fox.

Saturday’s ratings, however, were still the third-lowest-rated Game 1 ever.

Florida’s 3-2 victory over the Yankees notched a 10.9 rating, according to Nielsen. Once again, the game scored big locally on Ch. 5, which notched 1.9 million households.

That’s up 27 percent from the last time the Yankees played a Game 1 in the World Series 2001 vs. Arizona.

The game notched huge numbers in Miami, with 54 percent of all TV sets tuned into the game.

Fox is coming off a terrific ratings run in both the ALCS and NLCS, mainly because two “cursed” teams, the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox, were in the two series.

The Cubs, up 3 games to 1, lost three straight to Florida to lose the pennant, while the Red Sox blew a 5-2 Game 7 lead to the Yankees and lost on Aaron Boone’s dramatic, 11th inning home run.