Roger Clemens will join Jason Benetti in the booth for Yankees-Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball on June 28, 2026. NBC Sports is putting the rivalry back on its air for the first time since Sept. 8, 1995.
The game starts at 7 p.m. ET from Fenway Park. That makes this a rare network return for one of MLB’s most watched matchups, with Clemens in the broadcast chair for the first time in this setting.
Jason Benetti and Roger Clemens
Benetti will handle play-by-play, with Clemens as the analyst. Will Middlebrooks also joins the booth, giving NBC Sports a group built around direct familiarity with the teams and the rivalry.
Clemens brings a seven-time Cy Young Award resume into the broadcast. He finished a 24-year MLB career with 4,672 strikeouts, and he is one of the few former players in this telecast who has worn both uniforms in the rivalry.
The Sept. 8, 1995 gap
The last time NBC Sports aired Yankees-Red Sox, New York beat Boston 8-4 at Yankee Stadium. Nearly 31 years later, the same rivalry returns to the network with a different cast and a different venue, but the same basic draw: these games still carry more weight than a normal regular-season date.
That gap is the point. NBC Sports is not just adding a marquee game to Sunday Night Baseball; it is reviving a rivalry presentation it has not carried since 1995, and doing it with Clemens in the booth. Fans watching on NBC and Peacock get the game at 7 p.m. ET, with Anthony Rizzo also set for “Inside the Pitch” commentary during the broadcast and Bob Costas hosting the pregame show.
Yankees and Red Sox context
The timing fits the standings picture too. The Yankees entered at 46-31, leading the American League by two games in the AL East, while Boston sat eighth in the AL in batting average at.242. Ben Rice led New York with 22 home runs and 53 RBI, and Jazz Chisholm ranked fourth in MLB with 23 stolen bases. On the other side, Willson Contreras led Boston with 16 home runs and 45 RBI, and Aroldis Chapman was tied for fourth in the AL with 14 saves.
What NBC Sports is offering here is simple: a rivalry game, a return to the network after nearly three decades, and a broadcast team led by a pitcher whose career sits inside the same modern history the matchup still draws from.
