Red Sox Legend Will Return To Fenway Park To Call Yankees Showdown
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Red Sox royalty will be in the broadcast booth Sunday for the final game of Boston's four-game series with the New York Yankees at Fenway Park.
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Sports Business Journal's Austin Karp reports seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens is returning to his old stomping ground to be a broadcast booth analyst on NBC's "Sunday Night Baseball."
"The longtime MLBer, who was repped by The Montag Group in making the deal happen, will be the Yankees analyst for the game, while Will Middlebrooks will be the Red Sox analyst," Karp writes. "Jason Benetti will be on play-by-play. Bob Costas will host the studio show for NBC, with Anthony Rizzo as analyst.
"Clemens has done 'SNB' as a guest analyst before, having jumped on the 'KayRod' alt-cast in 2022 on ESPN2 alongside Barry Bonds," Karp adds.
Clemens spent the first 13 years of his 24-year MLB career with the Red Sox, winning three Cy Young Awards and the 1986 American League MVP. His 192 wins in Boston tied the franchise record set a century before by Young himself.
"The Rocket" later played two seasons for the Toronto Blue Jays before joining the Yankees ahead of the 1999 season. He spent a total of six seasons in the Bronx, winning a pair of World Series titles.
Despite his 354 wins, which ranks ninth all-time, and 4,672 strikeouts, which ranks third all-time, Clemens fell off the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot in 2022, due in no small part to allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs.
But Clemens remains revered in Boston and was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2014. His famed No. 21 has not been re-issued since he left the club after the 1996 season.
Last month, the Red Sox honored Clemens' first 20-strikeout game by giving out bobblehead dolls while the Minnesota Twins were in town over Memorial Day weekend. Clemens' son Kody currently plays for the Twins and caught a ceremonial first pitch tossed by his dad before the series opener.