Hope dims for getting ESPN to reduce coverage of Red Sox-Yankees

Neil Best notes: Sunday night's Red Sox Yankee game on ESPN was viewed by the largest national audience for an MLB game on ESPN since the June 3, 2007 Yankee Red Sox game.

• Sunday night's game was seen by 3.5% of all homes that have ESPN, 4.698 million people.
• 2007's game was seen by 5.304 million people.

The 2007 game was won by the Yankees 6-5. The score was tied going into the 9th inning at which point Arod hit a homerun making it 6-5. In the the bottom of the 9th, Mariano Rivera faced David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Kevin Youkilis (who reached on a hbp), and Mike Lowell. Ortiz hit a line drive to deep right field in an 11 pitch at bat. Manny and Mike Lowell struck out swinging.

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