<P> When the games are broadcast on Fox, Fox's lead broadcast team of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver call the game . Thus, the duo has called many significant moments in the rivalry . In 2004, the first game of the season between the two teams, on Friday, April 16, was nationally broadcast on Fox, because it marked the first time the two teams were facing each other since the memorable 2003 American League Championship Series . Fox Sports President Ed Goren said of decision to have the game broadcast on Fox: "If were up to me, we'd take the whole series and come back a week later and carry all their games at Yankee Stadium...We started thinking about this at some point after the Yankees closed the deal with A-Rod...This is sort of a relaunch of the season in the middle of April . This is going to be an event ." MLB Commissioner Bud Selig called the broadcast "an extension of the postseason brought into April ." This was the first over-the - air broadcast of a regular season game in prime - time since Mark McGwire hit his 62nd home run to break Roger Maris' record in 1998 . In October, when the two teams met in the ALCS, Selig moved Game 5 of the series to primetime due to the rematch . </P> <P> The broadcasts of the games between the rivals have led to an increase in television ratings . These games have had at least 50% higher ratings than all of the other games broadcast, sometimes almost twice as high than locally broadcast games . In most cases, the most - watched MLB game on any network during a season is a game between the Yankees and the Red Sox . </P> <P> Since 2003, ratings for Yankees--Red Sox games on Fox have averaged 2.6 percent of homes--44 percent better than other weeks, while ESPN has averaged 3.96 million viewers for Yankees--Red Sox games on Sunday nights, compared to the average of 2.18 million for all other games . Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS drew a 17.1 rating, the highest for a League Championship Series game since Game 6 of the 1993 National League Championship Series . </P> <P> In 2004, the first game between the two teams drew a 3.6 national rating, and with an average audience of 5.3 million, it was the most - watched regular - season telecast since Mark McGwire's record - breaking home run game . In 2003, Saturday games on Fox averaged a 2.5 rating; prime - time entertainment got a 3.3, but Goren said that he expected the game "will perform much higher than those (prime - time) figures" as a reason to have the game broadcast nationally . </P>

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