New York Yankees' Luke Voit (center) rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run off Boston's Eduardo Rodriguez (left) on Sept. 20, 2018, in New York. Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers is at right. The teams have little to play for this weekend but two of their games will be televised nationally, at the expense of more meaningful contests. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Nonetheless, ESPN shows that matchup at 6:10 p.m. Friday and TBS has it at 2:05 p.m. Sunday. Plus Fox is sending it to about a quarter of the nation on Saturday.
ESPN is bypassing two NL teams in the postseason picture — Milwaukee (against Detroit) and Colorado (against Washington) — in the early Friday night time slot, though those contests begin about an hour after the epic East Coast battle starts.