“Back-to-back Sunday night games, with all due respect to ESPN, come on. There’s other teams out there, and people want to watch them.' Does Alex Cora have a point about the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry taking up too much of the spotlight?
The postseason is always a different animal, and Red Sox-Yankees ratings are even more coveted, for obvious reasons. The 2021 wild-card game between the Red Sox and Yankees was ESPN’s most-watched wild-card game ever, at 7.7 million viewers.“The last four or five years, people might be down , but we’ve played twice in the playoffs since 2018,” Cora said, noting there had not been any postseason games between the teams since 2004.
Even though the Red Sox are 3 1/2 games behind the American League’s third wild-card team, there’s still a national draw when they play the Yankees, and it’s not likely to change anytime soon.Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.is a staff writer for The Athletic covering the Boston Red Sox. Prior to joining The Athletic, the Syracuse graduate spent four years as a Red Sox reporter for MassLive.
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