NBC bumps Yankees-Crimson Sox to stick with golf as Scheffler forces playoff
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An NBC Sports activities spokesman stated the choice was made in session with the PGA Tour and Main League Baseball.
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s uncommon {that a} New York Yankees-Boston Crimson Sox recreation will get preempted for something, particularly on community tv.
That was the case although Sunday evening as a consequence of a rain delay on the PGA Tour’s Vacationers Championship, and with Scottie Scheffler in rivalry.
An NBC Sports activities spokesman stated the choice was made in session with the PGA Tour and Main League Baseball to stay with protection of the golf match as soon as it resumed at 7:20 p.m. EST till it completed or was suspended as a consequence of darkness.
Scheffler — the world’s No.. 1 participant — made an 8-foot par putt on the 18th gap to drive a sudden-death playoff in opposition to Viktor Hovland on Monday morning. Match officers decided officers deemed there was not sufficient daylight to start out the playoff.
The ultimate spherical was stopped for 90 minutes as storms moved over the TPC River Highlands course in Cromwell, Connecticut. NBC aired the conclusion of the KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship. The beginning of the ultimate spherical of third ladies’s main of the 12 months in Chaska, Minnesota, was delayed 3 1/2 hours as a consequence of rain. Haeran Ryu gained by two strokes for her first main title.
The Yankees-Crimson Sox recreation was additionally streamed on Peacock. NBC picked up protection at 8:28 p.m. in the course of the backside of the fourth inning with the Crimson Sox main 2-0.
NBC viewers nonetheless obtained to see Boston’s Sonny Grey have a no hitter by seven innings earlier than the Yankees’ Amed Rosario ended it with a single with one out within the eighth inning.
That is NBC’s first season carrying “Sunday Evening Baseball.” It was the primary Yankees-Crimson Sox recreation on NBC since Sept. 8, 1995.
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