Friday, April 16, 2004
Hello and welcome to another year of Major League Baseball on Fox. I'm Joe Buck and I'm standing next to my esteemed partner, Tim McCarver. And boy do we have a dandy for you tonight. The Red Sox vs. the Yankees. The first meeting of 2004. It's sure to be a good one...
Tim: The last time we saw these two teams, Aaron Boone was sticking an 11th inning dagger into the hearts of Red Sox fans in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. Now Boone is out, and through a strange winter of player moves, Alex Rodriguez is in pinstripes. The way these teams went after each other during the off-season leads me to believe the on-season is going to be special.
Joe: Neither team is playing lights out here to start the new season. The Red Sox are 6-4, while the Yankees are 4-6 -- and at one point were 2-5.
The power men -- Jason Giambi for New York and Manny Ramirez for Boston -- have both struggled out of the gate. Both are hitting well below the Mendoza line. Pitching, though, has been strong and a couple of the game's best will be on the hill tonight as Mike Mussina (3-0) takes on new Boston hurler Curt Schilling (0-1).
So stay with us. Red Sox and Yankees. Yankees and Red Sox. The country's best rivalry of all time? Live from Fenway Park. It's next -- after these messages from your favorite alcoholic beverage and sexual dysfunction medicine...