 When the games are broadcast on Fox , Joe Buck and Tim McCarver call the game and , thus the duo has called many significant moments in the rivalry . In 2004 , the first game of the season between the two teams , on April 16 , a Friday night , was nationally broadcast on Fox , because it marked the first time the two teams were facing each other since the memorable 2003 ALCS . Fox Sports President Ed Goren said of decision to have the game broadcast on Fox : " We started thinking about this at some point after the Yankees closed the deal with A @-@ Rod . ... This is sort of a relaunch of the season in the middle of April . This is going to be an event . " MLB Commissioner Bud Selig called the broadcast " an extension of the postseason brought into April . " This was the first broadcast of a regular season game in prime @-@ time since Mark McGwire hit his 62nd home run to break Roger Maris ' record in 1998 . In October , when the two teams met in the ALCS , Selig moved Game 5 of the series to primetime due to the rematch . 
