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Alex Cora questioned why Pink Sox-Yankees are enjoying on ESPN’s ‘Sunday Night time Baseball’ for second straight weekend

May 31, 2025 by gajah.uk

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“Again-to-back Sunday evening video games? With all of the respect to ESPN, come on.”

Red Sox manager Alex Cora is pictured as he answers questions from reporters. Some members of the Boston Red Sox practiced today in preparation for tomorrow’s first official workout of Spring Training at their Fenway South Complex.
Pink Sox supervisor Alex Cora is not a lot of a fan of his workforce enjoying on “Sunday Night time Baseball” for a second straight weekend. Jim Davis / Globe Workers

The Pink Sox and Yankees are set to face off on ESPN’s “Sunday Night time Baseball” for the second time in as many weeks on Sunday. However regardless that the Pink Sox are set to play in one of many league’s huge TV slots once more, Alex Cora is disillusioned in his former employer.

The Pink Sox supervisor questioned why each groups are enjoying one another on “Sunday Night time Baseball” once more.

“Again-to-back Sunday evening video games? With all of the respect to ESPN, come on,” Cora not too long ago informed reporters. “There’s different groups on the market folks need to watch. You know the way good the rankings are gonna be on Father’s Day for Pink Sox, Yankees. 

“However back-to-back weekends, you’re in all probability gonna do one thing else together with your mother and father with your loved ones, you already know, since you simply noticed it final weekend.”

Cora may not be alone in feeling that manner because the Pink Sox-Yankees rivalry has been prominently featured on “Sunday Night time Baseball” through the years. Even this season, each groups are getting a primetime spot in opposition to one another, as they won’t be as intriguing as ordinary. The Pink Sox are 35-35 getting into Sunday’s doubleheader, and whereas the Yankees are 39-31, their offense has been lackluster as of late with Aaron Choose on the injured checklist.

After all, it must be famous that ESPN picks its “Sunday Night time Baseball” video games for the primary few months of the season previous to Opening Day. So, it didn’t know that Choose, arguably the sport’s greatest star, could be harm on the time.

And it additionally must be identified that Pink Sox-Yankees video games price higher than simply about each matchup within the majors. Pink Sox-Yankees video games on ESPN have averaged 1.9 million viewers during the last three years, which is 30 % higher than the typical viewership of non-Pink-Sox-Yankees recreation, in keeping with ESPN through The Athletic.

Even with the Pink Sox struggling and the Yankees with out Choose, final week’s “Sunday Night time Baseball” recreation averaged 1.94 million viewers, one of the best viewers for “Sunday Night time Baseball” this season.

The Pink Sox-Yankees rivalry was additionally essentially the most watched matchup on nationwide tv video games final season, a yr by which the Pink Sox completed under .500. Seven of the ten highest-rated nationwide tv video games within the 2022 MLB season had been Pink Sox-Yankees video games.

There are additionally fewer Pink Sox-Yankees video games this season than in years previous. With MLB introducing a brand new schedule format in 2023 that permits each workforce to face one another for at the least one sequence, the Pink Sox and Yankees will solely have 4 sequence in opposition to one another this season versus the standard six.

Fortunately for Cora, who labored at ESPN as an analyst earlier than starting his teaching profession with the Astros in 2016, Sunday’s recreation is the final time the Pink Sox and Yankees are scheduled to play one another on the four-letter community this season. Nonetheless, he shouldn’t anticipate the Pink Sox-Yankees not enjoying on “Sunday Night time Baseball” too typically anytime quickly.

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Originally posted 2023-06-18 15:11:00.

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